Linux team approves new terminology, bans terms like 'blacklist' and 'slave'

Re:Linux team approves new terminology, bans terms like 'bla... by nmpennypacker on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:25AM (#23819975)

So is it wrong to use a master branch now? If so, it'll be interesting to see how Git(*) responds to this.

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Re:Linux team approves new terminology, bans terms like 'bla... by mathieuh on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:29AM (#23820017)

GitHub are changing master to main, lots of big and small open source projects have already done so/are planning to do so https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/15/github_replaces_maste...

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Re:Linux team approves new terminology, bans terms like 'bla... by leonheart208 on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:26AM (#23819990)

They have announced they're going to change the default branch to "main" (or was that github?)

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Re:Linux team approves new terminology, bans terms like 'bla... by celticninja on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:39AM (#23820098)

Lots of organisations are switching to using main.

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