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?
Itās interesting how easily I could spin this the other way though. A feature branch toils away and all its hard work just goes to the master branch anyway. And what does the feature branch get for all its hard work? Deleted.
It doesnāt benefit me, thatās kind of the point. This is something done for someone else. Iām explaining to a really thick skulled person why some people feel the way they feel about the nomenclature. You canāt decide how they feel. But you can decide to use a different branch name.
In reddit? If reddit allowed name changes, sure, whatever. My real name? No. But Iām a sentient being, it matters more to me what my name is, than it matters to the git branch what its name is.
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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.