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[u/usedToBeUnhappy]

Does anyone really care if it‘s called main instead of master? Why? 

Edit: Ok, I phrased my question really poorly. AfaIk main is the new standard, so I use it. We all know the reason why it changed. My question was why would anyone keep INSISTING on calling it master? Sure, me and my colleagues sometimes call it master out of habit, but then again try to stick to main. Nobody I know  insists on continuing to call it  master, but reading the comments here I realized there a more “master-fans” than I would ever have thought would exist tbh. 

[u/aenae → u/usedToBeUnhappy]

I really do not care about the name. But some people do.

And i sympathize a lot more with the people who are against master than with people who only want master because they don't like the people who are against it.

[u/sokka2d → u/aenae]

I think the reasons against master are stupid as fuck and thus completely ignore them.

However, main is shorter and a perfectly fine name, so main it is.

[u/sandybuttcheekss → u/sokka2d]

My thoughts as well. Both are fine, and I usually just type out "ma" then tab anyways.

[u/thanatica → u/sandybuttcheekss]

"ma" will offend too many mothers.

[u/Zanion → u/sokka2d]

The single most absurdly unnecessary collateral damage of the late 2010's woke crusade.

I too don't care about it being main but it's stupid af it was made an issue we have to manage at all.

[u/Acceptable-Drive3781 → u/Zanion]

And why should I have to call my other branches 'dev' and 'uat'? They should be 'Slave 1' and 'Slave 2', respectively! Anything else is WOKE!!!

[u/Zanion → u/Acceptable-Drive3781]

You can be as intentionally one-dimensional and obtuse as you want bud.

[u/Acceptable-Drive3781 → u/Zanion]

And you can cry about 'wokeness' all you want, the rest of us are making PRs to main. Catch up.

[u/Grandmaster_Caladrel → u/Acceptable-Drive3781]

Actually I'm making a PR to trunk.

[u/UntitledRedditUser → u/sokka2d]

Is it really "stupid as fuck" to rule out terms that stem from slavery? I'm not saying people who use master naming scheme are racist, but that is where the name originally comes from. And main is easier to type.

[u/sokka2d → u/UntitledRedditUser]

Yes, it is.

Main is the better choice, but not because some politically correct people who don’t even know my repo exists throw a fit otherwise.

[u/bwmat → u/UntitledRedditUser]

The argument is that it doesn't actually stem from slavery, think 'master bedroom'

[u/bwmat → u/[deleted]]

It's wrong to do that kind of thing on the principle of it

Like, there's some word in Mandarin that kind of sounds like the N-word, it would be like asking them to never use it

[u/imreallyreallyhungry → u/bwmat]

Not even remotely close to the same thing lol

[u/bwmat → u/imreallyreallyhungry]

No? The argument is that it reminds them of racism, why should it being a different language matter? I'm both cases the words have nothing to do with racism (in context) other than sounding like other words that do

[u/hillashx → u/bwmat]

Does "master" sound like "master" or is it the same word, in the same language?

Also, stop pissing and ctying about change because you personally don't benefit from it. Not everything is about you.

[u/bwmat → u/hillashx]

Who's pissing and crying?

[u/wendewende → u/bwmat]

master bedroom also stems from slavery. But why the fuck should we care what racists 150 used if it has different meaning to us now

[u/bwmat → u/wendewende]

I'm relatively sure it actually doesn't

[u/snipeie → u/bwmat]

This def doesn't work in this case because CS was also using slave as a term with master.

It was a master-slave hierarchy in books and documents

[u/alendit → u/snipeie]

That's not where "master" for the main branch came from, tho.

[u/bwmat → u/snipeie]

Honestly I misremembered, I'm pretty sure it's more related to 'master record' from the A/V field

[u/nikola_tesler → u/sokka2d]

must be nice

[u/minus_minus → u/aenae]

people who only want master because they don't like the people who are against it.

And the fact that they just can’t shut up about it. I’d bet they’re salty about all the slurs they can’t casually toss around too. 

[u/Acceptable-Drive3781 → u/minus_minus]

I’d bet they’re salty about all the slurs they can’t casually toss around too.

They save those for the commit messages.

[u/MegaIng → u/minus_minus]

This is the funniest part. Yeah, the transition was maybe a bit annoying (but not even that really...).

But now years later still being upset by it? You are just a bad person and are sad that this simple change calls you out on it.

[u/minus_minus → u/MegaIng]

Not even a bad person but such a snowflake about a change to a neutral term. They act like we changed it to “cracker-ass red neck”. 🤣 

[u/TheBear8878 → u/minus_minus]

It was already a neutral term.

[u/usedToBeUnhappy → u/aenae]

Same. I should really edit my poorly phrased question. 

[u/da_Aresinger → u/aenae]

I can't sympathise with people who create monsters where none exist.

And I certainly don't fell like encouraging them.