= GitHub's replacement of `master` branch with `main` (2020)
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by <GitHub>{parent} around Black Lives Matter, due to a possible ludicrous relationship with slavery of black people:
* https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-main-starting-next-month/
* https://github.com/github/renaming
For the love of <God>, the word "master" is much more general than black slavery. If you are going to ban it, you might as well ban the word "evil".
Several software projects followed the purge from their codebases, maybe GitHub followed someone else's lead, it's hard to say.
The words "whitelist" and "blacklist" were also targeted.