Vivien Kraus <viv...@planete-kraus.eu> writes: > Hello! > > Le samedi 15 février 2025 à 09:42 +0100, Liliana Marie Prikler a > écrit : >> Recent versions of Git support arbitrary initial branches and the >> default >> branch name is subject to change upstream, at least in part because >> the >> current default — “master” — may be perceived as harmful. In the >> meantime, >> Guix adopted a Contributor Covenant, pledging to interact in ways >> that >> contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive and healthy >> community. > > Maybe we could be a bit more explicit instead of “may be perceived as > harmful”, if the case needs to be made stronger. For instance, “the > current default, “master”, evokes a metaphor for a political > organization based on inequality. This is at odds with the interaction > model Guix wants to promote through the Contributor Covenant, …”
Is the "master" in git not originating from "master record", so there is no connection to the "Master and Slave" usage? Tomas -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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