{"thread":{"id":"53701","subject":"Re: Rename offensive terminology (master)","startedAt":"2020-06-17T11:40:39Z","lastAt":"2020-06-17T12:27:26Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Alastair Houghton","Oleg","Zac McChesney"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"399970","messageId":"B67468F4-98BB-4213-9763-1A09EC256769@alastairs-place.net","threadId":"53701","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Re: Rename offensive terminology (master)","fromName":"Alastair Houghton","fromEmail":"alastair@alastairs-place.net","sentAt":"2020-06-17T11:34:05Z","receivedAt":"2020-06-17T11:40:39Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"alastair@alastairs-place.net","avatar":null},"body":"Just to stick my oar in here, *if* it’s going to change (and I’m yet to be convinced that it should, but I’m also not opposed in principle to a different name), **PLEASE** can we change it to “trunk”, which is what most of us were using before Git became popular anyway?  That at least makes sense in that a tree trunk has branches.\n\nKind regards,\n\nAlastair.\n\n--\nhttp://alastairs-place.net\n\n"},{"id":"399971","messageId":"20200617114940.GA8376@legohost","threadId":"53701","inReplyTo":"B67468F4-98BB-4213-9763-1A09EC256769@alastairs-place.net","subject":"Re: Rename offensive terminology (master)","fromName":"Oleg","fromEmail":"lego_12239@rambler.ru","sentAt":"2020-06-17T11:49:40Z","receivedAt":"2020-06-17T11:48:02Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"lego_12239@rambler.ru","avatar":null},"body":"On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:34:05PM +0100, Alastair Houghton wrote:\n> Just to stick my oar in here, *if* it’s going to change (and I’m yet to be convinced that it should, but I’m also not opposed in principle to a different name), **PLEASE** can we change it to “trunk”, which is what most of us were using before Git became popular anyway?  That at least makes sense in that a tree trunk has branches.\n\nBut \"master\" is not trunk. It just a branch.\n\n-- \nОлег Неманов (Oleg Nemanov)\n"},{"id":"399972","messageId":"CAGqqT2x7PY4eGWSduV_seHEXSktqCzE_7u9ECjr+7LXOdb9e1w@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"53701","inReplyTo":"CAGqqT2zFkCUTdUnzdp4oTR2cnxBpKeY-EZtxacLLVDsF8Jiekw@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Rename offensive terminology (master)","fromName":"Zac McChesney","fromEmail":"imzacm@gmail.com","sentAt":"2020-06-17T12:27:11Z","receivedAt":"2020-06-17T12:27:26Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"imzacm@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Just to give my view on this (I've been following for a couple days).\n\nI started using git in 2016 so everything I've ever done with git has\na master branch, every tutorial I've followed uses a master branch,\nand everyone I've worked with since 2016 is used to using a master\nbranch.\n\nI don't want to join in a political debate, and I don't see why\npolitics has to have any impact on non-political software, there is no\ntechnical reason for this change that will eventually impact every\ndeveloper that uses git, which is most developers.\n\nGit is a version control software, if someone is using git to manage a\npolitical project, they're free to use a different branch name, but I\ndon't see why a backend developer working on non-political projects\nshould be impacted by an unnecessary breaking change.\n\nAn example scenario I can see happening (especially to inexperienced\nDevs) if the default branch name is changed:\n\nDev gets a new laptop and installs git, all their projects work as expected.\nThey create a new project with \"git init\".\n\"Where's master?!\" \"Did I do something wrong? Every other time I've\ndone that it created a master branch\".\n"}]}