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No disrespect, but asking everyone to remove words from the English language because they may offend a small group of oversensitive people is one of the most frustrating social initiatives of our time. "Master" makes sense for the job and unless we're also putting "Slave" and "Cotton" on the dictionary chopping block, the arguement will always seem arbitrary to me.
It is much easier for lots of western progressives (i.e. moderates if that label was used properly) to fix a naming scheme than reevaluate the exploitative structures on which their lives are based.
Aren't we though? At least when it comes to tech, Master-Slave terminology has been largely deprecated in favor of other terms.
The only reason you think "master" makes sense is because you're used to it. It's actually quite a weird connection to make, if you aren't used to it. "Main" is much more straight forward. And nobody is really demanding people stop using "master", so far as I am aware, it's just that people are making that choice themselves.
I vote for naming this branch "mommy", since all other branches are it's offspring, and related to it.
name it daddy so i can open an issue and say i have daddy issues
GitHub, GitLab, and git itself, are all using
mainas the default name of the default branch, by default.Yes that is the point. They made the choice to change their default. You can still make the choice to name your branches, especially the main one, as you like. Setting it for a project is less work than complaining about it.
More to the point it refers to relation between elements and not the political correctness of the act. Just how the terminology is used in books, but reading one doesn't imply you are a racist or condone slavery.