linuxmemes

Locking comments. Had a good run, over half a day, but this was always headed for an emotional train wreck.

main in the streets, master in the sheets

Mommy.

I get wanting to move away from "master," but why in the world didn't we use "trunk"

It was already a standard name, and it fits "branches," etc.

It's a retroactive bastardization of the word based on one particular culture's one particular interpretation of it (master being, apparently, a slaveowner) that ignores both the much earlier meanings of master artisan or master craftsman (as opposed to journeyman and apprentice) and masterpiece (through which an artisan is recognised as a master), and the modern meaning of a master copy (like a master record in disc printing).

This isn't like replacing the "master and slave" terminology with regard to connected devices. That one was warranted because it was often inaccurate and confusing. But forcing the adoption of main instead of master feels like someone got offended on someone else's behalf because a word looked superficially like that other bad word, and apparently we can't have an understanding that goes deeper than what letters it's made up of.

Amerika ist wunderbar. This is an --initial-branch=master household.

I personally don't think the word "master" should be considered offensive - my wife has a master's degree in deaf education - but I've switched to "main" because that seems to be the convention now and it really doesn't have to be an issue.

Master. I find this out of context fight against words pathetic.

Just use main. I'm not bothered by either, but I'm not in the demographic that would be bothered by master, so I use main and STFU. It takes way less effort to switch to main (if you haven't already) than to come up with all this rhetoric about why master shouldn't trigger people.

I can work with either, but I cannot and will not forgive any deliberate changes from main to master.

Main.

Don't get me wrong, the whole debate is Microsoft just being performative (why not use your vast wealth to actually help people?). But honestly, putting the debate aside, "main" is just a clearer and more intuitive name.

canon

No one commits to trunk anymore....

The default branch for some projects is "production" since CD deploys on pushing to that branch

For new projects, main. My thought is that even if master is not offensive, since the industry has generally made the change, the only reason to stick with master is stubbornness or hating political correctness, neither of which aligns with my self-view so I'll use main and move on.

In general if people are genuinely hurt by the use of some words, I'm not sadistic so I'll avoid using them. From my perspective morality is the pursuit of the reduction of suffering, even if that suffering is internal.

master

I grew up with master, and main just feels weird.

Whatever the repo is setup with.

I always rename my branch to main. Because it's shorter? That's the extent of my reasoning. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

Master. I find the whole "reasoning" behind the controversy absolute horseshit peddled by nontechnical people on the sidelines

No gods no master branches

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dom

If it uses master and it's too much trouble to get people to switch. It stays master until we can coordinate.

If I'm starting a new project I use main.

Why?

It doesn't take much to do and it avoids any misunderstandings or arguments and we've got work to do. I don't particular care if you guys are "stuck" on master. If that's what it is and everyone wants to keep it that way, I don't have enough will to change it. If it's under my control, I will change it.

I don't care which one you use, just don't change it once it's established. So many legacy Yocto projects got broken cause open source libraries changed their branch names.

Trunk

I'm naming my production branch goshujin-sama