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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by freddie_mercury on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @05:08AM (#26488325)
No, he's complaining that they didn't ask him specifically. It really easy to find black developers who were consulted and agree with the change.

Here we go (this took under 5 seconds for me to Google)

https://dev.to/afrodevgirl/replacing-master-with-main-in-git...

Now there's duelling anecdata and the OP provides no suggestions on how to reconcile them.

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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by gebruikersnaam on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @05:33AM (#26488584)
From the article:

"So if this change did not really even attempt to involve the black developer community..."

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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by emteycz on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @05:21AM (#26488457)
They could simply rename their own branches.
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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by 1f60c on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @08:22AM (#26490051)
...yes? No one is forcing anyone to do anything.

I don’t think anyone expects “main” (“develop”, “default”, “trunk”, ...) to ever become the default branch name.

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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by emteycz on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @09:11AM (#26490624)
It is already the default branch name... That's the point of this whole fluff. Nobody would care about people changing their own branch names.
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