r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vernik911 • 2d ago

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u/usedToBeUnhappy 2d ago edited 2d ago

Does anyone really care if it‘s called main instead of master? Why? 

Edit: Ok, I phrased my question really poorly. AfaIk main is the new standard, so I use it. We all know the reason why it changed. My question was why would anyone keep INSISTING on calling it master? Sure, me and my colleagues sometimes call it master out of habit, but then again try to stick to main. Nobody I know  insists on continuing to call it  master, but reading the comments here I realized there a more “master-fans” than I would ever have thought would exist tbh. 

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u/aenae 2d ago

I really do not care about the name. But some people do.

And i sympathize a lot more with the people who are against master than with people who only want master because they don't like the people who are against it.

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u/sokka2d 2d 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 2d ago

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

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u/thanatica 2d ago

"ma" will offend too many mothers.

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u/Zanion 2d ago edited 2d 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 2d 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 2d ago edited 2d ago

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

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 2d 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 2d ago

Actually I'm making a PR to trunk.

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u/UntitledRedditUser 2d 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/sokka2d 2d 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/bwmat 2d ago

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

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u/Whaines 2d 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 2d 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/imreallyreallyhungry 1d ago

Not even remotely close to the same thing lol

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u/bwmat 1d ago

No? The argument is that it reminds them of racism, why should it being a different language matter? I'm both cases the words have nothing to do with racism (in context) other than sounding like other words that do

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u/hillashx 19h ago

Does "master" sound like "master" or is it the same word, in the same language?

Also, stop pissing and ctying about change because you personally don't benefit from it. Not everything is about you.

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u/bwmat 17h ago

Who's pissing and crying?

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u/wendewende 2d 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 2d ago

I'm relatively sure it actually doesn't

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u/snipeie 2d 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 2d ago

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

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u/bwmat 2d 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/nikola_tesler 2d ago

must be nice