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    [–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

    My scrum master said that we need new tickets to update the git branches and pipelines to use main instead of master since master was a bad word.

    I asked him what his job title was again and there was a pause.

    Then he said we can't say that we are going to groom the code base anymore.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

    I'm gonna go ahead and assume your scrum main doesn't groom themselves.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

    Switch from your scrum main to your scrum alt.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

    If we are not grooming the codebase, are we then waxing it?

    Or is it more eco-friendly to let the codebase grow wild and untrimmed?

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I agree that it’s pathetic. I’ve never been a fan of virtue signaling.

    In the other hand, β€œmain” is easier to type than β€œmaster” (or β€œtrunk,” for that matter). So I’ve made peace with it.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

    Trunk would be better because of all the branches.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I know someone with a master's degree from university.

    Well, he cut me a golden master copy of the track, anyway.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    "I main in science degree of Evolutionary Biology" has a weird ring to it.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I main Evolutionary Biology and have alts in Chemistry and Anatomy.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

    I kinda unironically dig this.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Why master? main is much clearer

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Why not change "walkie talkie" to "radio phone"? It is so much cleaner.

    Because change for the sake of change always brings more work than what it saves.

    Why change something that works and everyone recognizes it? Of course, if this debate was there when the standard was created...

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Because it is a historically settled down terminology that everyone understands and there is no adequate reason to change it.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

    everyone understands

    no, new people learn git every day.

    'main' is much clearer. It's maybe not the same readability gain as 'blocklist/allowlist' over 'blacklist/whitelist', but it's still there.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

    we should make the empty string the name for the default branch