I always knew GitHub was a place full of sin I just couldn't figure out where these feelings were coming from.

I'm committed to my partner. She's evil, I knew it.

I say we should form a commission to investigate this further.

The commission might find that I’m mostly at fault so I might have to walk back my original claim.

My wife's commitment is concomitant to mine.

I hope.

Jokes on you, but they changed the default branch to be named "main" instead of "master" for reasons of appropriation.

I wonder if they take points away in an interview if you have a master's degree.

It's still one of the most stupendous pieces of harmful slacktivism that I've seen. So, so much pointless work fixing thing that didn't need to break, and all for the stupidest reasons possible.

“master” never made much sense to begin with. I’m still a bit disappointed that the default wasn’t set to “default”. I argued for either that or having no default at all.

Seriously, ignore political correctness for a bit. The “master” branch is generally not in charge of anything. It’s not like a master recording of which everything else is a copy. It has no special rights and isn’t even necessary more important.

It made a limited sort of sense in Linux where torvalds/linux.git’s master branch is the branch that everyone else’s development eventually follows, but my git clone of that is not any sort of master despite being called “master”.

That's fair. There still wasn't a problem, just a silly legacy name.

Stop trying to rationalize this insanity. It's a power grab, no more, no less.

Crazy, it's almost as if the same word can have different meanings and connotations depending on context!

> Committed to a cause, lives up to one's commitments, committed a patch, etc.

It's so easy. Almost every word has positive and negative connotations. Find such a word in your opponent's vocabulary, claim they intended the negative connotations, and thus declare him a sinner. Reference this Stanford document to support your accusation.

If you want to take a Christian perspective, the word "commit" is used to emphasize that the individual took specific action as opposed to "omit" meaning they failed to take proper action to prevent evil.

"Died by suicide" implies passivity. It just happened to them.

> "Died by suicide" implies passivity. It just happened to them.

Like "Officer involved shootings."

Exactly.

Well with officer involved shootings I can kind of understand the passive perspective, seeing as cops are not really acting on their own accord.

I genuinely don't understand this comment.

In the olden days, a news report would say "A suspect was fatally shot by a police officer."

Now, they'll only say "A suspect was fatally injured during an officer-involved shooting."

Which is like, yeah no kidding the officer was "involved" -- he pulled the trigger!

One has to be fully committed to the act of ending their life in order to commit suicide.

If you think suicide is actually a really bad thing, does it mean you can in good conscience use the saying "committed suicide"?

COMMIT should be banned from SQL.