Robert, If this were the _only_ effort being made, I would agree. It's a small thing. But lots of small things add up, and they make the big things worse. So, because it is small doesn't mean it's not important, or that it can be ignored. Indeed, that is a sign of privilege, to be able ignore the small things that seem unimportant in isolation. Thus, of course this is not the only action I am taking at present, I take a multi-faceted approach to my activism, and I encourage you to do the same. I think my friend Mislav has a much more eloquent response that is worth reading: https://twitter.com/mislav/status/1270388510684598272 Don Goodman-Wilson On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:51 AM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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
