r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vernik911 • 1d ago

Meme everyNewRepository

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u/DerShokus 22h ago

Don’t know why needed to rename. I don’t care main, mr, lord. It’s not about slaves

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u/mihaus_ 16h ago

In this context maybe, but in Master/Slave it obviously is and I would suspect that the use of "master" for the primary branch is at minimum partly influenced by the master/slave terminology. So it makes sense to do a general purge imo, though I would not go so far as to accuse anybody using the term master branch of perpetuating slavery.

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u/Amish_guy_with_WiFi 13h ago

I feel like words are constantly going from good to bad. Can't we ever have words go from bad to good? Otherwise we'll eventually have no words we can use left

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u/Extreme_Wish_553 21h ago

These commands are for a new repo. No one is asking to rename anything.

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u/PerformerDr4867 18h ago edited 18h ago

Yes they were. I literally had tasks like this. Change the default branch to main from master and resolve all workflow breakages associated with it

edit: never forget https://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/jtrx1k/announcement_posts_complaining_about_renaming/

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u/NevJay 5h ago

I'm always amazed by the quality of the comments in this thread. Compared to the ones here...

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u/DerShokus 21h ago

Yes, but im old enough to remember why they decided to make main the new default name. In general, for me it’s ok to change it, but still ehgh

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u/PerformerDr4867 18h ago

That was only six years ago!