Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 2 months agoIt’s all good and well until you start working in a repo that has both master and main branches for some reason, and it is not clear which is actually the master/main branch.
MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Then you’re working in an idiotic repo. You could just as well have have a master and an actual_master branch. Similar idiocy.
ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 2 months ago
It only takes one person to fuck it up. I agree it’s stupid, but introducing a conflicting standard increases the chances of someone fucking it up in the name of progressiveness
SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A place I used to work at had that… The corp had rolled out a non-delete policy with something akin to
*master, so when someone made a `abrv_master’ branch it got protected and couldn’t be deleted anymore.