On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:07:01PM +0200, ZeeVriend wrote: > First I want to thank you for the time. I think the change is good and discussion about inclusive really necessary. > Let me tell you I have Congolese ancestry. Today I develop in Brussels, Belgium - the irony you see, is not :-) > Second let me tell you the new master name 'main' is not so good chosen. In french 'main' LITERALLY means 'hand'. The recent > history in Congo will explain why this is bad. Not long ago slaves in Congo because of Belgian rulers. Very sad history, because > hands were cut off! Many Africans today still have family from then. My grandparents can tell me horrible stories when I visit :-( > I think you can see now why 'hand' or 'main' is very offensive to us. I can tell you, for French Africans this is MORE offensive > than 'master'! Because this reason, we do not want to be reminded of hands while using git. > Third I can suggest 2 more neutral alternatives. First one is 'default', which has almost same meaning in French. Second alternative > is 'zero' or 'branch0'. I like this one more, because it has an exact same meaning in French! Also it is very neutral and programmers No-no. Please. "branch" is sounds bad for cyrillic hear and has bad associations. Like a "брань". "zero" is like a "nothing" or "looser". -- Олег Неманов (Oleg Nemanov)
