Re: [PATCH v2] am: counteract gender bias
- From
Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jul 8, 2016, 07:50 UTC
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- <CANQwDwfB=NuZuzVJUOLncF-T8gLzJne01i1K2zrXJwgKBLidfg@mail.gmail.com>
- In-Reply-To
- <ceb80e45d1f02b71cc5ad2d7ded04360c530a9a8.1467962234.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Hello Johannes,
On 8 July 2016 at 09:17, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> Since d1c5f2a (Add git-am, applymbox replacement., 2005-10-07), i.e. for > almost 11 years already, we used a male form to describe "the other > tree". > > While most likely unintended, this gave the erroneous impression as if > the Git developers thought of users as male, and were unaware of the > important role in software development played by female actors such as > Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton. In fact, the first > professional software developers were all female. > > Let's change those unfortunate references to the gender neutral "their > tree".
In my opinion more important reason than being "gender neutral" is that Git uses the "ours" / "theirs" terminology in all other places - this patch makes Git consistent and code easier to understand (it also removes weird plural "ours_tree" vs singular "his_tree" in code arguments).
But nevermind that...
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> > --- > Published-As: https://github.com/dscho/git/releases/tag/gender-bias-v2