Re: The master branch rename, and avoiding another v1.6.0 git-foo fiasco

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 11:14 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

You may choose to downplay the experience of certain part of the user-base, because in your experience creating new repositories doesn't happen often, but that doesn't mean these users don't exist.

Yes, this is the part I'm concerned about.

At this very moment there's people in universities trying to learn Git and creating repositories, so are people training in companies. There's a whole industry dedicated to teaching Git, and they rely on creating repositories.

A simple "git grep master" on the documentation of git.git (without the release notes) shows at least 800 instances.

This is precisely the part that was neglected in the v1.6.0 release that I undertook: nobody bothered to change the documentation that was using git-foo commands.

I find it curious that this is the criticism you choose to give on a change that is supposed to be making Git more inclusive towards people with different experiences (potentially non-existent); making light of the experiences of very real people which we know exist.

Shouldn't we be inclusive towards these very real users as well?

Since this is 2020, and just to be crystal clear: I intend no offense, I just truly find this argument curious.

Cheers.