I'm personally not a fan.
For one, I'm expecting quite a few things to break when you remove something that's expected to be present in 90% of all Git repositories.
Also, if you're associating the word "master" with slavery in any context (because honestly, what's the link between version control and slavery?) then you might have more problems than renaming it to "main" can fix for you.
If it comes through, will I start renaming "main" to "master" in my own repositories? Of course not, I'm not even complaining about the rename itself, had Github announced this a year ago for the reason of it being "simpler" or whatever it probably would've encountered pushback as well.
But where do you stop, why don't we just remove the word "master" from the English language altogether? Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker, but I have literally ZERO link between the word "master" and slavery.
I'm expecting quite a few things to break when you remove something that's expected to be present in 90% of all Git repositories.
While that's a valid concern I think It's not as big of a deal as it might seem. For one thing if you are talking about tools and scripts if you can just search and replace s/master/main/g than your tools/scripts are probably brittle.
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I'm personally not a fan.
For one, I'm expecting quite a few things to break when you remove something that's expected to be present in 90% of all Git repositories.
Also, if you're associating the word "master" with slavery in any context (because honestly, what's the link between version control and slavery?) then you might have more problems than renaming it to "main" can fix for you.
If it comes through, will I start renaming "main" to "master" in my own repositories? Of course not, I'm not even complaining about the rename itself, had Github announced this a year ago for the reason of it being "simpler" or whatever it probably would've encountered pushback as well.
But where do you stop, why don't we just remove the word "master" from the English language altogether? Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker, but I have literally ZERO link between the word "master" and slavery.
While that's a valid concern I think It's not as big of a deal as it might seem. For one thing if you are talking about tools and scripts if you can just search and replace s/master/main/g than your tools/scripts are probably brittle.
It’s not that simple. Many systems that integrate with git (e.g. CI/CD) assume master is the default branch.
I would hope that any those systems aren’t so inflexible as to not allow you to specify the name of the default branch on configuration
Why do that work at all? Who does it help?