Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch

Re:Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch by optionalsquid on Monday November 24, 2025 @02:55AM (#46031467)

> In any case, who made the association of the git branch "master" to slavery? It is absurd.

BitKeeper, the VCS that preceded Git, used the terminology "master" and "slaves", so the association is not based on nothing:

https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/0524ffb3f6f1...

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Re:Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch by johnisgood on Monday November 24, 2025 @02:57AM (#46031479)

It is based on nothing. It is not intended to be offensive, and it is not intended to be about slavery. Similarly how master and slave pins are not either, or how blacklist and whitelist are not about race either!

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Re:Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch by johnisgood on Monday November 24, 2025 @05:26AM (#46032435)

BTW FreeBSD changed blacklistd to blocklistd. :(

I do not mind blocklistd, but then again, there was nothing wrong with blacklistd either.

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Re:Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch by ret2plt on Monday November 24, 2025 @06:26AM (#46032889)

I grant it's not nothing, but I think it's not enough of something to make changes over it. Thinking of a master record or similar is the natural reaction when you learn about the terminology, and most young people have never used bitkeeper, so unless you go out of your way to explain why this is "bad" most people won't even know, so what do you gain from it?

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