GitHub's replacement of master
branch with main
(2020)
ID: github-s-replacement-of-master-branch-with-main-2020
GitHub's replacement of
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-03-25 +Created 1970-01-01
master
branch with main
(2020) by By GitHub around Black Lives Matter, due to a possible ludicrous relationship with slavery of black people:
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.
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