Re: [PATCH 00/28] Use main as default branch name

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On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 7:00 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12 2020, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:

> After this series as it stands lands what's a rather big UI change in
> git isn't discussed *anywhere* in the docs.
>
> I'm not saying we need some similar s/master/main/g in Documentation/ as
> what's being done here in t/, but I think a bare minimum for a rather
> big UI change like this is:

Why not?

Isn't this change being championed on behalf of users who find the
word offensive?

Why would it be offensive to see the word on the commands you type on
the command line, but not offensive if the documentation tells you to
type those commands? This does not compute.

And worse; for the rest of the users that don't find the word
offensive (99.9% of them?), the documentation is left in an
inconsistent state, where some commands would not work as they are
stated.

If a word is so offensive it has to be erased from the Git lexicon,
then it has to be erased *everywhere*, or at least everywhere a user
might look.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras




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