Maybe comparing <the sum total of annoyance from reading the old name> to <the current sum total of annoyance reading the current name>, it was a positive direction overall?

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ecshafer 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t believe that more than .0001% of people actually felt annoyance. Master branch was used referencing a master, as in the master copy of a record, not a slave master. No normal people were actually annoyed by that.

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rurp 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You need to add all of the real world breakage to scripts and tutorials on the right side of that ledger. Plus the negative effects of virtue signaling undermining efforts at substantive change.

Also, are we supposed to ban the word master from all of it's dozens of normal English use-cases? I never got a clear answer on why git branch names were so much more harmful than someone mastering a skill or making a master record.

	▲	seanw444 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I suggest we all boycott Mastercard until they rename to Maincard. I simply cannot bring myself to generate revenue for a company so bigoted they'd use such an egregious name.

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stronglikedan 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

nope. to this day, it's still fucks people up and causes mistakes. it was stupid then, and it's still just as stupid. virtue signalling is always fucking stupid, and sometimes, like in this case, is flat out egregious

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smrtinsert 2 hours ago | parent [-]

At some point virtue signaling is fixing symptoms of the problem. Always had a problem with master slave terminology happy to see it gone.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 5 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> virtue signaling is fixing symptoms of the problem It diminishes the seriousness of the entire anti-racism movement by making it look petty, out of touch and more interested in creating nuisances than solving real problems. The San Francisco school board got fired for doing similar nonsense during COVID, renaming schools and thus showing they weren’t serious people.
	▲	anonymars 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You'll be happy to know in the context of a "master branch" it never had any connotation to slavery, except in the minds of people who see everything as a question of race* Anyway I'm off to listen to the 50th anniversary Dark Side of the Moon remaster. Wait, is "dark" an okay word? I didn't get a master's degree in English * Parallel ATA on the other hand, yeah, yikes

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lnenad 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I mean, if you were to do that, I'd wager more people are annoyed with the change than were annoyed with the original name. So no, it was a negative direction overall.

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SkyeCA an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It was preformative nonsense that caused (and still causes!) more hassle than it was worth