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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by ivanche on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @07:43AM (#26489686)
> Though I initially sympathized with the name change from master to main (cause I don't care what it is called)

It seems you don't have any bash/zsh/fish scripts which assume that the most important branch is named "master"...

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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by cforrester on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:57PM (#26496073)
For smaller scripts, this is trivially resolved. For larger scripts, this is a bug, and the script should be updated with a more flexible solution that doesn't rely on hardcoded branch names.
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