Hello Johannes, On 8 July 2016 at 09:17, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Since d1c5f2a (Add git-am, applymbox replacement., 2005-10-07), i.e. for > almost 11 years already, we used a male form to describe "the other > tree". > > While most likely unintended, this gave the erroneous impression as if > the Git developers thought of users as male, and were unaware of the > important role in software development played by female actors such as > Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton. In fact, the first > professional software developers were all female. > > Let's change those unfortunate references to the gender neutral "their > tree". In my opinion more important reason than being "gender neutral" is that Git uses the "ours" / "theirs" terminology in all other places - this patch makes Git consistent and code easier to understand (it also removes weird plural "ours_tree" vs singular "his_tree" in code arguments). But nevermind that... > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > --- > Published-As: https://github.com/dscho/git/releases/tag/gender-bias-v2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html