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Discussion on: GitHub to replace racially-loaded terms (master, slave, blacklist and whitelist)

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Dan Dascalescu • Edited

I think renaming the "master" branch is,

  • useless to the assumed target audience, who hasn't even been offended by the term
  • a cheap PR stunt
  • hurting far more developer due to the time wasted by having to change countless build pipelines, and the frustrating caused by staying up all night fixing P0s due to the inevitable ensuing breakage
  • possibly humiliating to black developers, because we assume they're incapable of treating "master" like the mere label that it is.

I wrote more about these in another post.