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I always knew GitHub was a place full of sin I just couldn't figure out where these feelings were coming from.


I'm committed to my partner. She's evil, I knew it.


I say we should form a commission to investigate this further.


The commission might find that I’m mostly at fault so I might have to walk back my original claim.


My wife's commitment is concomitant to mine.

I hope.


Jokes on you, but they changed the default branch to be named "main" instead of "master" for reasons of appropriation.


It's still one of the most stupendous pieces of harmful slacktivism that I've seen. So, so much pointless work fixing thing that didn't need to break, and all for the stupidest reasons possible.


“master” never made much sense to begin with. I’m still a bit disappointed that the default wasn’t set to “default”. I argued for either that or having no default at all.

Seriously, ignore political correctness for a bit. The “master” branch is generally not in charge of anything. It’s not like a master recording of which everything else is a copy. It has no special rights and isn’t even necessary more important.

It made a limited sort of sense in Linux where torvalds/linux.git’s master branch is the branch that everyone else’s development eventually follows, but my git clone of that is not any sort of master despite being called “master”.


Stop trying to rationalize this insanity. It's a power grab, no more, no less.


That's fair. There still wasn't a problem, just a silly legacy name.


I wonder if they take points away in an interview if you have a master's degree.


Crazy, it's almost as if the same word can have different meanings and connotations depending on context!




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