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Re: [PATCH v2] am: counteract gender bias

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Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 8, 2016, 07:50 UTC
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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
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Message 9 of 10 in “am: counteract gender bias”
  1. am: counteract gender biasJohannes Schindelin, Jul 7, 2016
  2. Mike HommeyJul 7, 2016
  3. Jakub NarębskiJul 7, 2016
  4. Johannes SchindelinJul 7, 2016
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 7, 2016
  6. Johannes SchindelinJul 8, 2016
  7. Johannes SchindelinJul 7, 2016
  8. am: counteract gender biasJohannes Schindelin, Jul 8, 2016
  9. Jakub NarębskiJul 8, 2016
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 8, 2016

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