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Re:Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch t... by pseudalopex on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @11:55AM (#25139101)
People campaigned to replace master and slave in technology long before BLM.
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Re:Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch t... by jobigoud on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:15AM (#25147656)
This is not master and slave. There are no slave branches. This is just seeing slavery everywhere. It's offensive to drag an innocuous homomym term (master/apprentice, master record) into the slavery lexical field.
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Re:Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch t... by gkoberger on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @11:58AM (#25139151)
I know, however the change (in Git/GitHub, at least) was never made until now.
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