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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by CRConrad on Monday January 13, 2025 @04:58AM (#42681814)
> ...much as I did a couple of years ago when we were all socially pressured into renaming our "master" branches to "main" branches.

Hey, at least it's two letters -- 33% -- shorter.

Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by esperent on Monday January 13, 2025 @11:13PM (#42693530)
You're not wrong - objectively, main is an equally good or perhaps even very slightly better name than master. But it's like making a tiny change that requires a huge refactoring - in this case, literally millions of developers were involved, not to mention the countless hours of discussion which are still ongoing years later, as you can see from this thread. Was it worth it?
Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by CRConrad on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:23AM (#42695341)
Yeah, heck, of course I didn't mean anyone should go back and rename shit in already existing repos! Sheesh, what a crazy waste of effort that would be.

But for new projects it really doesn't bother me that the default nowadays is "main" in stead of "master", was all I meant.