It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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    unfair treatment.

    We’re talking about slavery here.

    sick of having to relabel

    It’s not that hard…to be accommodating.

    divorced from the social issues

    from your point of view

    the code doesn’t care

    You’re right. Call it a controller and agent. I know naming is hard, but we’re smart enough to apply our lexicon.

    never use the words master or slave ever again? What’s next??

    Ah, the slippery slope fallacy.

    We still use master over main

    The default for new repositories on GitHub has been main for awhile now. You would have had to put in effort to change it to something else. You’re a stick in the mud.

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      The default for git repositories is still master. Not to be the “real programmers only use CLI” guy, but I feel like git init isn’t too hipster.

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        …which you get a multiline message telling you to change your ways (Linus doesn’t break UX)…every time you init…weird.

        $ git init
        hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name
        hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all
        hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:
        hint:
        hint: 	git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>
        hint:
        hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and
        hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command:
        hint:
        hint: 	git branch -m <name>
        
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          Gonna be honest, I don’t think I ever read that. I think I usually just do git status immediately after to see if all’s well.

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        The default has been main for awhile.

        This is the case in our current version of git (git version 2.28. 0). As of October 1, 2020, any new repository you create on GitHub.com will use main as the default branch.

        March 2021 for gitlab

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              18 months ago

              can you point where ANYTHING is recommended at all there?

              Cause it simply says that you can change the name. But “master” is the default. That doesn’t sound like a “recommendation” at all. But just making people aware since some repositories try to force things like “Main”. Almost like the repo you’re using might be enforcing shit that Git in of itself doesn’t give a shit about.

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            No shit? Let me guess; you’re still using git like Linus intended it to be, decentralized, by emailing each other tar.gz’s

            • Saik0
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              18 months ago

              No. I’m just not willing to attribute a COMPANY as the sole owner/stakeholder in a protocol that honestly has very little to do with them.

              Just because Github does something, does mean that they represent git.

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      Fuck I don’t get your downvotes, you’re right. I get people want to vent but in the greater scheme of things having to use different words to be a smidge more inclusive isn’t that big of a deal or effort considering what some of us do to help our friends be accepted.

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        It’s so weird that so many people are calling being accommodating in such a small way “performative” or whatever! I think some people just can’t handle change and blame others for it.

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          108 months ago

          or it’s just literally performative and doesn’t actually change anything about the realities of being POC in America other than making (ironically) a bunch of white people feel good about themselves.