Simon Pieters <simon@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Junio, > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 6:02 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Simon Pieters <simon@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > If someone is interested in helping with this, please follow up with >> > Don. But I would like to ask again for git mainline to seriously >> > consider adopting this change, given the information presented above >> > and the ongoing movement against systemic racism. >> >> I am OK in principle if a future version of Git, when used by a new >> user of Git who does not have any custom configuration, wrote a >> string other than 'master' in .git/HEAD when "git init" is run. >> >> Picking a good replacement word to mean the primary branch is >> tricky, though. Just having a notion that one is special among >> many (i.e. the primary-ness of the thing being named with a word >> that will replace 'master') may already be offending to some folks. > > I find this response not satisfactory: And I find that response quite offensive. I am not saying that there is any good replacement word, or there shouldn't be one, or we shouldn't look for it. If we can come up with a single replacement word and everybody can agree on it, that would be great. I am just cautioning you that we may not be able to reach a single word as a concensus, and you should plan with the possibility in mind. In any case, I wasn't responding to satisfy just you in particular anyway ;-)
