Gitlab default branch name changes to main

Re:Gitlab default branch name changes to main by tialaramex on Sunday March 14, 2021 @08:43AM (#26454867)

See, that would be making yourself a victim of "hysteria". If you just raised an eyebrow and moved on then your claim that it's "hysteria" might have more weight but you'd have less opportunity to grandstand about it. This is also an amusing choice of terminology because of the origin of the word hysteria but I'm going to guess you didn't do that on purpose.

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Re:Gitlab default branch name changes to main by hYKdTfpa on Sunday March 14, 2021 @08:46AM (#26454884)

Do we really have to examine the origin of every word we use rather than according its modern common usage and use in context?

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Re:Gitlab default branch name changes to main by truculent on Sunday March 14, 2021 @08:51AM (#26454934)

We're not examining every word. This article is about examining a specific word, with a specific history, within a specific context.

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Re:Gitlab default branch name changes to main by vshager on Sunday March 14, 2021 @08:58AM (#26454994)

In a specific country, whose industry takes free open source labor from all over the world and then imposes its own cultural values.

Open source people from other regions provide the majority of code and have no say in political decisions. One might be tempted to say that they are slaves.

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Re:Gitlab default branch name changes to main by dang on Sunday March 14, 2021 @01:54PM (#26457222)

Please don't use HN for political and ideological flamewar, regardless of what you're battling for or against. We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Gitlab default branch name changes to main by truculent on Sunday March 14, 2021 @09:07AM (#26455056)

> imposes its own cultural values.

This is a default. If it offends your sensibilities so much, you can configure it to be something else.

Heck, I'd even go as far as suggesting that "main" is a more common word for non-native speakers of english than "master", making it more intuitive for non-US developers.

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Re:Gitlab default branch name changes to main by meepmorp on Sunday March 14, 2021 @08:51AM (#26454938)

Why are you so invested in something with so very little impact on you?

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Re:Gitlab default branch name changes to main by gher-shyu3i on Sunday March 14, 2021 @11:09AM (#26456028)

That's how society keeps going downhill. Just raise an eyebrow and keep moving whenever X is introduced, soon enough we'll be paying the price.

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