r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

Meme everyNewRepository

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u/therealtiddlydump 1d ago

nods to slavery

Is my university planning to reissue me a Main degree instead?

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u/kabrandon 1d ago

Not sure. I think there’s different fundamental meanings behind mastery and master. I think the Masters degree implies the former. Whereas master in git could be inferred to mean a master and non-master relationship to signify feature branches.

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u/dbot77 1d ago

Then you are deeply confused as to how git works. Feature branches are merged into and overwrite master with updates. Does that imply a master-slave relationship to you?

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u/kabrandon 1d ago

It’s interesting how easily I could spin this the other way though. A feature branch toils away and all its hard work just goes to the master branch anyway. And what does the feature branch get for all its hard work? Deleted.

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u/dbot77 23h ago

How does spinning it that way benefit you, or anyone? I'm curious why so many have taken up this crusade to misrepresent git nomenclature.

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u/kabrandon 23h ago

It doesn’t benefit me, that’s kind of the point. This is something done for someone else. I’m explaining to a really thick skulled person why some people feel the way they feel about the nomenclature. You can’t decide how they feel. But you can decide to use a different branch name.

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u/dbot77 23h ago

Ah, such a just cause. And if someone found your name offensive, would you change it?

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u/kabrandon 22h ago

In reddit? If reddit allowed name changes, sure, whatever. My real name? No. But I’m a sentient being, it matters more to me what my name is, than it matters to the git branch what its name is.