On Tue, 9 Jun 2020, Simon Pieters wrote: > 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: ... snip ... "I can't breathe ... I can't breathe ..." "Well, tell you what, what if we rename the initial default branch in a distributed version control system for you?" *Now* do you understand how asinine all this sounds? rday
