Closed aaronjorbin closed 3 years ago
As a part of tearing down the systems of oppression that exist in the world, we should remove references to master and replace them with main.
master
main
Master in git has it's roots in bitkeeper which explicitly used it to mean master/slave relationships. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/msg00066.html
This may require us to update to scripts so everything continues to function correctly.
For Github, there is a tool worth exploring to help with this: https://github.com/liyanchang/default-branch-migration
As a part of tearing down the systems of oppression that exist in the world, we should remove references to
masterand replace them withmain.Master in git has it's roots in bitkeeper which explicitly used it to mean master/slave relationships. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/msg00066.html
This may require us to update to scripts so everything continues to function correctly.
For Github, there is a tool worth exploring to help with this: https://github.com/liyanchang/default-branch-migration