Re: Rename offensive terminology (master)

> Hi Junio,
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 6:02 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > Simon Pieters <simon@bocoup.com> writes:
> >
> > > If someone is interested in helping with this, please follow up with
> > > Don. But I would like to ask again for git mainline to seriously
> > > consider adopting this change, given the information presented above
> > > and the ongoing movement against systemic racism.
> >
> > I am OK in principle if a future version of Git, when used by a new
> > user of Git who does not have any custom configuration, wrote a
> > string other than 'master' in .git/HEAD when "git init" is run.
> >
> > Picking a good replacement word to mean the primary branch is
> > tricky, though.  Just having a notion that one is special among
> > many (i.e. the primary-ness of the thing being named with a word
> > that will replace 'master') may already be offending to some folks.
>
> I find this response not satisfactory: