[Onavo]

main vs master

[wiether]

The issue has always been with the reasons invoked to make the change

Otherwise it would have been smoother

[happymellon]

You didn't hear the foaming at the mouth shouting to rename master recordings, master documents, or dub over The Master from Dr. Who.

Considering how much effort we had to out into fixing pipelines because of hardcoded scripts, and the lack of good reason to do it its no surprise that it was scoffed at. White keyboard warriors needed to make a change, but couldn't do anything meaningful as it would require actually doing something.

At least this change makes sense.

[ChocolateGod]

I thought the purpose of the rename was to encourage these contributions that apparently weren't happening because of the branch name?

It certainly helped GNOME whom was one of the biggest proponents /s

[chadgpt3]

The purpose was to make some people feel righteous, which is the purpose of so much human activity.

[inigyou]

personally my default branch is called dominatrix, just to annoy the kind of person who argues about master

[egypturnash]

Do you call all your subsidiary branches “paypigs”?

[QuercusMax]

ugh, half the repos at work use main and half use master. Such a pain.

[nh23423fefe]

dei idiots dont care about outcomes only signalling

[QuercusMax]

Nah, I genuinely think "main" is a better name overall (it's shorter and clearer). What does "master" mean in a DVCS anyway?

I'm generally in favor of DEI, btw, so you can lose me with your bigotry.

[otikik]

mainster