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Re:Redis is open source again by txcwg002 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @12:47PM (#43860184)
I believe it. There are companies that invested hundreds of engineering hours to rename master to main.
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Re:Redis is open source again by patates on Friday May 02, 2025 @04:08AM (#43867332)
One would find it hard to believe how often we hardcoded "master" to every corner of the software that ever touches any VCS.
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Re:Redis is open source again by xandrius on Friday May 02, 2025 @10:13AM (#43870054)
That is even more ridiculous, at least switching to a clean fork of Redis has business reasons. Following the latest cultural fads, less so.
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