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Re:The moral case against equity language by jraph on Friday March 03, 2023 @01:12PM (#35013097)
> How about the push to rename words in technology that have been in use for decades, like changing the default git repo from master to main.

How is this unpractical/unrealistic?

Some people adopted main, some people kept master, the world did not end, things are going well. Not much thought on this in the day-to-day work.

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Re:The moral case against equity language by tolien on Friday March 03, 2023 @01:54PM (#35013550)
> Some people adopted main, some people kept master

Some people used “trunk” since well before Git existed. If ever there was an example of how the umbrage at renaming things was baselessly manufactured, master -> main has to be right up there.

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