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[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I find it funny how many ppl complained about it when it came up. Now it is the default on github and other code forges. And now one cares anymore if it is master or main.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 43 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It was never about the name itself, but about breaking a convention for extremely dubious reasons.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago

On the plus side, forcing people to support alternative branch names surely has led to better software support for a core Git feature.

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You sound like a slave owner, ngl

I am not pro slavery but I will not free my chattel slaves. People just break with this tradition for extremely dubious reasons.

Listen to yourself!

Edit: I was thinking about putting "/s" at the end but thought it was obvious enough. I was wrong

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why do I keep getting this comment? Maybe I should call myself Poe in the future

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think on the Fediverse (or just Lemmy?) I've seen more people who'd post your comment non-ironically. Or maybe they're not serious either (but they'd have to be really committed to the bit).

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I had a conversation recently where someone said they weren't serious after several levels of comments that were downvoted into oblivion. I try to make myself understood in the second (or third) level of comments or, as in this case, in an edit

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Sb got offended for no reason, then companies decided to get public approval points out of it; nothing new or notable. Seriously, tf is the point of overanalyzing it like there's nothing better to do?

[–] ninpnin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

People like you are why JavaScript exists

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

Because its a non issue to developers.

It was only a hand wringing thing by internet bloggers.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Master is still the default branch when you run git init.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Depends on your version of git, I believe.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The latest version from kernel.org still uses master. It's certainly possible for distro maintainers to change it on the versions they package though.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, seems like I'm wrong. I looked up the docs on git-scm.com and it says that the default branch name is "currently master, but this is subject to change in the future". Maybe GitHub threw me off.