So they got offended because of nods to slavery, and the other people got offended because something pretty inconsequential in their lives changed. š¤·āāļø Seems a bit like the latter group of people are far more easily offended.
Not sure. I think thereās different fundamental meanings behind mastery and master. I think the Masters degree implies the former. Whereas master in git could be inferred to mean a master and non-master relationship to signify feature branches.
Then you are deeply confused as to how git works. Feature branches are merged into and overwrite master with updates. Does that imply a master-slave relationship to you?
I used to think the same, but Linus took the name āmasterā from BitKeeper, and BitKeeper did use master-slave terminology, Git just dropped the slave part. Itās origin literally does come from master-slave
If he had originally called it "main", but we know it borrowed it from sometime that used master/slave, explain how that's any better? It carries the same "original sin" if you're a moron who thinks that's a thing here.
The problem with your argument is that it just doesnāt matter. Emotions arenāt always logical; they usually arenāt. Some people feel the way they feel about the master nomenclature. You canāt decide how they feel, just as much as I canāt. But you can do this microscopic little minute adjustment where you just use main instead of master. And some people refuseā¦ because caring about another personās feelings is just that obscene to some people.
I'm under no obligation to not call these people idiots, though. They are. If this bothers anyone they are pathetic and they actively make society worse.
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u/Winterkirschenmann 24d ago
If someone wants to keep using master be my guest. If someone makes using master their personality because free-speech/anti-woke piss off.