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The GNU folks: Hehehe, we called it GIMP. And the main branch is called master. Because GIMP, get it?! We couldn’t possibly change it because *fart noises*
Also GNU folks: Why does everyone think we’re three misogynistic 12-year-old boys in a neckbeard suit?
There are so many low hanging fruits for you folks to embrace inclusivity and make a dedicated effort to clean up your act but you seem too bloody busy pissing all over the tree to mark your territory.
@aral I swear I'm not trying to play devil's advocate here but I genuinely do want to understand the sentiment. Why is the name not inclusive? I understand it's named after the sex thing which I guess is a bit weird tbf, but as far as I know the act of being a gimp or dominating one is pretty gender neutral. So who exactly is it excluding?
@engravecavedave @aral before all the complaints about the name of the software, I wasn't aware of the fact that it can also mean someone with a physical disability. In the UK, I've only ever heard it used to call someone stupid.
I'm not a fan of the name regardless tbh, but I think the "master" thing is a bit of a stretch considering that's a default branch name that predates even Git, and people are moving away from it now.
@bitflipped @engravecavedave The point being that the gesture to show people who actually care about them is:
git branch -m master main
git push -u origin main
And maybe a note in the readme.
It’s not rocket science.
But you have to care about being inclusive. And maybe that’s the bit that requires the most work.
@aral @bitflipped I guess that's why I'm asking. Why is it not inclusive and what can be done to make it inclusive?
@engravecavedave @bitflipped Look up “slavery.” And you change it to “main.” Boom!
@aral @bitflipped this ... confuses me even more. Is it a slavery reference? I thought it was a sex joke.
I feel there are some cultural differences here which are causing the issue. Is the name not inclusive because it's a sex joke (which then I have to ask "are sex jokes exclusive to men?" because my female friends make sex jokes all the time) or is it because there happens to be a US abelist slur with the same name? The master slave thing seems to be a git issue not GIMP.
@engravecavedave @aral I believe the suggestion is that they are complicit because they haven't yet renamed the master branch to main. If it's trivial to do, I think they should do it sooner rather than later, as that's the direction the industry is going anyway.
@bitflipped @aral Alright yeah, I guess I understand the sentiment. Thanks for the clarification