GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran

Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by jpxw on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @10:51AM (#25646755)

Github’s help text when opening a new repo irks me. It contains the following:

    git branch -m master main

With absolutely no explanation of what they are doing, or why. I can imagine this being confusing to beginners, and it requires mental effort for me to ignore it each time.

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Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by skrebbel on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @11:24AM (#25647082)

This cost me 20 minutes + lots of confusion when teaching a Git course to newbies some weeks ago. I switched to GitLab for the next group.

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Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by weka on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @12:02PM (#25647624)

Well, just think of how many tutorials (aka 99.9%) iterate git master branch.

When new people start, they are going to wonder what master vs main branch is -- I guarantee it.

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Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by apta_ on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @11:55AM (#25647497)

They seriously think "master" is a bad word? That's crazy.

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Re:GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in ... by jey on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @12:34PM (#25648121)

To be fair, our industry brought this on itself -- we did use "master" and "slave" together as technical terms in various contexts. Now even the innocent uses of "master" that don't involve any reference to slavery are tainted too, at least from the perspective of a non-technical outsider. I'm sure their eyes will glaze over well before one can finish explaining what a version control system is, why you would want one, why it has branches and what they are used for, and that all this involves no references to slavery.

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