[randunel]

Previous shortcuts (dotfiles) which performed merges and other operations no longer work, as you never know if the project uses one branch name or the other.

And there's a whole new breed of programmers out there who feel offended on behalf of others about renaming versus not renaming, for example, the word "robot" comes from slave in Slavic languages and it should be banned, etc.

I somewhat agree with either banning all potentially offensive words or none at all, so let's go with none? Otherwise git is now simply gatekeeping offensiveness, and that's absurd.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

They didn't ban anything? They changed the default branch name for new repositories. You've always been able to have different default branch names (I've used `trunk` for years) so if your shortcuts assumed `master` they'd have broken in a repo with a different default anyway.