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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by skywhopper on Monday January 13, 2025 @08:58AM (#42683454)
That’s definitely not my read of the article. Are you saying you are offended by someone researching this phrase and then suggesting it’s not a great metaphor for multiple reasons? Do you understand you are the one getting mad about what you think someone said, when they didn’t?

Also, “main” is far better name than “master” for the primary branch of a git repo for lots of reasons. Did it hurt anything to change the default? Why are you so attached to the old name? If anything it made our automation code better to stop having hard-coded assumptions of what the main branch was called.

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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by bigstrat2003 on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:46AM (#42684699)
> Did it hurt anything to change the default?

Yes. Change always has a cost associated with it. In some cases, that cost is repaid with benefits. In this case, it hasn't and will never pay benefits.

> Why are you so attached to the old name?

Because I refuse to comply with self righteous busybodies who think it's their job to ensure that everyone is acting right. It was obnoxious when those busybodies were railing against comic books/rock music/rap/movies/video games, and it's just as obnoxious when they rail against "master" as a technical term.

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