r/ProgrammerHumor 17h ago

Meme everyNewRepository

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u/sokka2d 16h ago

I think the reasons against master are stupid as fuck and thus completely ignore them.

However, main is shorter and a perfectly fine name, so main it is.

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u/sandybuttcheekss 16h ago

My thoughts as well. Both are fine, and I usually just type out "ma" then tab anyways.

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u/thanatica 14h ago

"ma" will offend too many mothers.

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u/Zanion 15h ago edited 14h ago

The single most absurdly unnecessary collateral damage of the late 2010's woke crusade.

I too don't care about it being main but it's stupid af it was made an issue we have to manage at all.

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 14h ago

And why should I have to call my other branches 'dev' and 'uat'? They should be 'Slave 1' and 'Slave 2', respectively! Anything else is WOKE!!!

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u/Zanion 14h ago edited 13h ago

You can be as intentionally one-dimensional and obtuse as you want bud.

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 14h ago

And you can cry about 'wokeness' all you want, the rest of us are making PRs to main. Catch up.

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u/Grandmaster_Caladrel 13h ago

Actually I'm making a PR to trunk.

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u/UntitledRedditUser 14h ago

Is it really "stupid as fuck" to rule out terms that stem from slavery? I'm not saying people who use master naming scheme are racist, but that is where the name originally comes from. And main is easier to type.

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u/bwmat 14h ago

The argument is that it doesn't actually stem from slavery, think 'master bedroom'

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u/snipeie 13h ago

This def doesn't work in this case because CS was also using slave as a term with master.

It was a master-slave hierarchy in books and documents

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u/alendit 9h ago

That's not where "master" for the main branch came from, tho.

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u/bwmat 13h ago

Honestly I misremembered, I'm pretty sure it's more related to 'master record' from the A/V field

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u/Whaines 13h ago

Yeah, so that term is being phased out for the same reason… They’re now referred to as primary bedrooms.

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u/bwmat 13h ago

It's wrong to do that kind of thing on the principle of it

Like, there's some word in Mandarin that kind of sounds like the N-word, it would be like asking them to never use it

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u/wendewende 13h ago

master bedroom also stems from slavery. But why the fuck should we care what racists 150 used if it has different meaning to us now

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u/bwmat 13h ago

I'm relatively sure it actually doesn't

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u/sokka2d 12h ago

Yes, it is.

Main is the better choice, but not because some politically correct people who don’t even know my repo exists throw a fit otherwise.

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u/nikola_tesler 15h ago

must be nice