On Mon, 4 May 2020, Simon Pieters wrote: > "master" is an offensive term, as it can be interpreted as being > slavery-origin terminology. See > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)#Terminology_concerns > > The Python programming language, and various other projects, have > taken a stance and moved away from offensive terminology including > "master". See https://bugs.python.org/issue34605 > > When different projects using git decide to move away from "master" > as the name of their main branch, inconsistency ensues between > projects. See https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/6478 (and > "Related Issues and Projects"). > > To avoid offensive terminology and to avoid further inconsistency, I > think git should use a different branch name than "master" when > initiating a repo. I don't have a strong opinion, but I like "main" > since it shares the first two characters and it's shorter. please, no ... this is just massive and unnecessary churn, and it opens up a ridiculous can of worms. if you change this, then of course you will have to reword everything related to data buses that are defined to work on a "master-slave" basis. and would you have to stop describing your competence in a particular field as having attained a "mastery" of the subject matter? this is just a bad idea. rday
