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Running git 2.28 or later? Take 10 seconds and enter the following into your terminal to set the default branch in new projects to main not master:
git config --global init.defaultBranch main
Actions matter more than words. So here’s a simple action you can take to show that you care.
@aral fill me in, why is this desired? thanks
@aral ah, I see. I suppose I should probably rename my aunt-jemima dev branches too
@ryan No, man, you keep doing you.
@aral @ryan Not that I really care about the word master, but how is that related to racism and why should removing it make things better?
I always thought remembering what happened in the past is the best way to avoid such mistakes, I don't really understand the logic of forgetting everything we don't like anymore.
@lurker @aral @ryan One should motivate action, not inaction.
I see no good motivation to change what I am doing; even if the word was SlaveryIsFine I would see no point in changing my workflow.
As long as people know history and have a little awareness they'll be able to keep using it without falling back to slavery.
Instead of removing we should explain even more to people about it; not in git obviously though...
@locrian @aral @ryan No, but people are changing it because it reminds them about slavery; they are purposefully choosing to remove something that reminds them about slavery, therefore they decided to forget.
Many decisions of this kind are being taken lately: monuments destroyed, books frowned upon, inventors discredited and so on.
Moreover, I don't understand how the word master is related to slavery: master has quite a broad meaning.
Also, the monuments people object to are statues that are made to uplift slaveowners and Confederates. If they were really only there to help us "remember" the past, why don't we have statues of Osama bin Laden, Stalin, [insert more horrific figures from living history here]?