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Discussion on: Github is replacing the word master to avoid slavery references. Deal with it.

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Luke Inglis

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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Steve Taylor

Itโ€™s not that simple. Many systems that integrate with git (e.g. CI/CD) assume master is the default branch.

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Luke Inglis

I would hope that any those systems arenโ€™t so inflexible as to not allow you to specify the name of the default branch on configuration

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Dan Dascalescu • Edited

Why do that work at all? Who does it help?