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Discussion on: How to rename the master branch to main

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

Although this response doesn't relate exactly to renaming branches (it relates to the use of the same terminology with respect to clusters), I think it is well worth a read:
master + slave
Original comment, and the post it is in reply to can be seen here

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Alessio Michelini

I respect his opinion, but it's not the only opinion and I presume there will be other black americans that could have a different opinion about it. To be honest I don't know, I'm Italian and I get offended by people who mention to me Mussolini and laugh about it as it's some sort of joke, when it's really not a laughing matter for me.
But to stay more in the context of the webdevelopment, as github is setting main as the default branch, it doesn't change the purpose of this article, which is to standardize the name on every project, regardless if you agree or not about the changing of some words.