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by cubefox 1077 days ago
Not to mention removing "master" as the main branch name in Git.
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I think removing "master" is probably just virtue signaling, but so what? It's trivial for me to switch my projects to "main", and then I can get back to my life. It's a weird hill to die on.
You can't appease arbitrary and meaningless demands.

There will just be more of them.

So you remove "master" and "blacklist", then next week it's "brown bag" and "merit".

So instead we pick a reasonable point, draw a line in a sand and indicate a hard boundary. We say no. We will not play a game of trying to appease arbitrary demands.

Hey now, that's 50% of the work required to get a free t-shirt every October.

Add a couple typo correction commits and you're dressed for the next year.

Going after mentions of "fields" is going to make 2024 a lot of fun.