It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

    • ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk
      292·
      4 months ago

      It’s all good and well until you start working in a repo that has both master and main branches for some reason, and it is not clear which is actually the master/main branch.

    • yogsototh@programming.dev
      3·
      4 months ago

      I work for s company that suddenly asked to rename a lot of stuff. This had consequences. It cost time, money, and created a disconnect between internal to the dev vocabulary that couldn’t be changed easily and user facing vocabulary. Also we were lucky but this could gave broken some long used API that we are proud not to version because the policy we have internally is “we will NEVER break the API”. And so far, for 8 years we still haven’t.