Re: Is 'master' problematic when used alone?

2020-06-13 Thread Trevor Grant
Hey- So on Mahout, we decided per Rich's original thread on diversity@ on replacing whitelist/blacklist terminology, that if renaming our `master` branch to something else attracts just one more contributor it's worth it.[1] Also on diversity@ Naomi first brought up that `master` as in master bra

Re: Is 'master' problematic when used alone?

2020-06-13 Thread Matt Sicker
I will suggest to anyone looking for an alternative name to consider "trunk" which is already widely used by other SCMs like our very own Subversion. ;) On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 13:57, Trevor Grant wrote: > > Hey- > > So on Mahout, we decided per Rich's original thread on diversity@ on > replacing

Re: Is 'master' problematic when used alone?

2020-06-13 Thread davidb
Hi all, It seems that 'main' as an alternative to 'master' for git repos is getting used in various other places. Best regards, David On Saturday, 13 June 2020, Matt Sicker wrote: > I will suggest to anyone looking for an alternative name to consider > "trunk" which is already widely used by