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[-] RustyNova@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Inb4 normies force us to change well established terminology just to appease their fragile souls

Like git's main and master

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 35 points 1 month ago

Whining about that change is kinda a red flag ngl

[-] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago

Right? It’s less letters and it’s pretty clear.

I haven’t found a good action neutral replacement for “black list” yet though. “Deny list” and “block list” are too action-specific.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 6 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a nono list to me!

[-] phorq@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Or enemy list, but that might be too presidential...

[-] nintendiator@feddit.cl 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe you jest but now I'm seriously wondering why hasn't this been proposed. It's defo better than something like "disallow list".

[-] agelord@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I started using git after everyone switched to main from master, so I don't care about the change. But, the change in itself is a red flag.

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

Look, we already got rid of "Master/Slave" in favor of things like "Parent/Child", "Active/Standby", or "Primary/Secondary". We're not making more changes because right-wingers are afraid of everything.

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

do we still have mother and daughterboards?

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

tbh i think "master" terminology is only bad if paired with "slave". the word itself kinda just lost it's original meaning
but I don't really care about git's change. im only using master out of habit

"Okay Todd, looks like Steve is working on auth, so you'll be on the blacklist today-... ahah I mean, working on the blacklist today ahem..."

[-] nintendiator@feddit.cl 0 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah that was a shitshow. I made a point to keep "master" in my repos and configurations because it's the other meaning of master - one of the many others. Words are allowed to mean different things, ya know? If I'm drinking some coke I'm certainly not drugging myself (...I hope).

After all, the command to attach to a master is not "git slave", it's "git pull".

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