I insist on renaming main to master every time I create a repo on GitLab. Master forever, even if it doesn’t make much sense.
Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoI use ‘main’ on git instead of ‘master’ now (forced to change at work) and its shorter and snappier IMO.
But yeah there are more important problems out there.
Scrollone@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
meekah@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That makes no sense whatsoever.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
most things in life make very little sense, have you ever thought about land rights?
Scrollone@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
It makes sense because “master copy” is the name of the “official” version of something. Nothing to do with slavery by the way.
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s already not the master copy if you have release branches or tags, but it is the “main” branch 🤪
meekah@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But “Main” is more clear, and putting in extra effort to basically just piss off politically (over)correct people doesn’t make any sense, and is kinda weird tbh
NostraDavid@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
I don’t know about Scrollone, but I hate it when corporations force me to change for the sake of change. Options to change is fine (in case someone doesn’t like the default), of course.
And no, “inclusivity” is not the actual reason, as that’s already covered by adding the option to change (which again, is completely fine)
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
So you are not passively working against progress, you are doing it actively.
Scrollone@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
And I’m proud of it :)
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
So you are not passively working against progress, you are doing it actively.
d00ery@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The master in master branch is, I’d assume, from the idea of Master copy which refers to the original of something, eg a recording, drawing, etc. www.collinsdictionary.com/…/master-copy
I’m not hugely tied to the word and things change … So meh.
meekah@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
While I agree with your assumption, I think main is less vague. Master can be interpreted several ways, including an offensive one. So while I agree with other commenter in that it’s unnecessary to go back and change things retroactively, but just setting the default branch name for new repos in your version control to main is a fair thing to ask IMO.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Is the code going to be offended? If so it’s probably already offended by it’s likely very bad code quality and lack of maintenance and repair.
meekah@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Not the code, but some of your coworkers might potentially be offended.
Also good job with the ad hominem.
ultramaven@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
When I start “whipping up” the pull requests, I’ll make sure to “rape” your suggestions
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s offensive too. Proper terminology is “con/noncon”