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p-snft opened this issue Sep 2, 2020 · 2 comments
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Rename "master" branches (e.g. to main) #78

p-snft opened this issue Sep 2, 2020 · 2 comments
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p-snft commented Sep 2, 2020

In the wake of the BLM movement, awareness has risen that some words commonly used in IT are actually racist. Thus, I suggest to rename "master" branches to '"main" or "release".

Further reads:
BBC: GitHub abandons 'master' term to avoid slavery row
Golem (German) Code ohne Rassismus
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uvchik commented Oct 8, 2020 •
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I DO see the need to remove "master-slave" from any code and hardware design etc. but I do not see the need to remove "master-dev". For me "master-dev" reminds me more to "master-student", as the dev-branch is an incomplete branch. But in the future all commits will be "master". The dev is ahead of the master and does not depend on the master and is not worth less. So from my point of view I do not see the need for this extra work.

But I am not a native speaker and the words may sound different for them, so I am not against the renaming.

I would prefer "stable". "main" is fine, too, but I do not like "release".

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p-snft commented May 6, 2021

It's been decided today to rename master to main.

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