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by cool_dude85 655 days ago
>Unfortunately a few years later I can say the opposite.

It's your contention that people getting up in arms about not changing the name of the 'master' branch specifically look good now, with hindsight? Can't say I agree.

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You’ve reframed the disagreement about unnecessary work as “up in arms.” They look like sane folks who recommended not doing purely symbolic work.

Something substantial perhaps, say promoting under-represented folks within psf would be something. You can’t eat branch names.

For what it's worth, David Mertz would agree with you (https://discuss.python.org/t/why-im-leaving-discuss-python-o...).

He got kicked out, too.

That the people implying they were monsters were the actual monsters.
We can mostly agree that the people acting on the irresistible urge to rename git branches specifically look bad now.

Turns out it's a slippery slope, who would've thunk.