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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[-] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 33 points 2 months ago

It's all good and well until you start working in a repo that has both master and main branches for some reason, and it is not clear which is actually the master/main branch.

[-] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 40 points 2 months ago

Then you're working in an idiotic repo. You could just as well have have a master and an actual_master branch. Similar idiocy.

[-] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It only takes one person to fuck it up. I agree it's stupid, but introducing a conflicting standard increases the chances of someone fucking it up in the name of progressiveness. Needless to say I killed off the main branch that someone one had tried to make to replace the master branch.

[-] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A place I used to work at had that.. The corp had rolled out a non-delete policy with something akin to *master, so when someone made a abrv_master branch it got protected and couldn't be deleted anymore.

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