GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases

Re:GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal... by ben_w on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:13AM (#42946453)

To get *everyone* to magically go back would require *forcing me* to go back. Very few of the places I worked kept the default name anyway, for entirely unrelated reasons. Call the default branch "A" for all I care. Or "Release". Or "Primary". Or "Root".

Sure, I know the etymology doesn't go to what it sounds like, but even without any culture war stuff — and this is very mild, I view "not using 'master'" in this context as "being polite" — even without culture war stuff, what you're whinging about was already something people had to handle.

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Re:GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal... by IshKebab on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @06:49PM (#42957073)

So I am forced to deal with the main/master mess. That's what I thought. I don't know why you commented.

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Re:GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal... by ben_w on Thursday February 06, 2025 @03:17AM (#42960233)

"Very few of the places I worked kept the default name anyway, for entirely unrelated reasons."

You already had the problem you're whinging about, even without any culture war.

And I really do mean it when I say you are 'whinging' here: of all the things people in software have to deal with, what something is called is among the more trivial.

A policy that strips people of money, even with good reason, is much more disruptive than "what's this called?", that you call this "bullshit" and *this* is your comparison? It's like a posh person in WW1 saying that their caviar being rationed is more important than the troops getting winter jackets.

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