So creating a new repo on GitHub, you get a set of getting started steps. They changed the default branchname to “main” from “master” due to its connotations with slavery.

When I create a new repo now, the initial getting started steps recommend creating a branch named “master” as opposed to “main” as it was a while ago.

It’s especially weird since the line git branch -M master is completely unnecessary, since git init still sets you up with a “master” branch.

Disclaimer: I have a bunch of private repos, and my default branchnames are pretty much all “master”.

Is this a recent change?

Edit: Mystery solved, my default branchname is “master”. Thanks bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone !

  • normalexit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    123·
    2 days ago

    You seem like a delightful person to work with. I’m just saying be pragmatic and maybe try not to be a dick about it?

    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      63·
      2 days ago

      It’s always eye raising when someone takes umbrage with using main over master.

      Like … awfully weird hill to die on, you’re kind telling on yourself some.

          • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 hours ago

            what’s hilarious to me is none of you realizes that I might not be white. you’ve judged the color of my skin entirely based on an opinion that conflicts with your perception of what a person of color would have. last time I checked that’s racial profiling, which is racist. so…who’s trying to impose power over whom here?

            regardless, I vehemently deny that I want to use “master” to force my will onto others (outside of maintaining a standard branching strat). as I have stated previously, the hourly cost to convert master to main is far too high to consume and too frivolous of a change to piecemeal out over the next three years.

            until HR is ready to explain to the executives why I can’t deliver the features they want this quarter, it’ll stay as “master”.

        • boatswain@infosec.pubEnglish
          3·
          13 hours ago

          That you’d be a bad teammate: the kind of person who puts personal preference above what the group has decided and causes problems for no good reason; the kind of person who would insist on indenting with spaces when the whole team has decided to use tabs.

          • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 hours ago

            my editor converts tabs to spaces and back again. so that’s a non-issue.

            I do put personal preference ahead of what the group wants if the group wants something that has been called “frivolous” and “not that big of a deal”.

            I don’t understand how I’m the asshole if I’m the one made responsible for setting the standards for the team.