It's clear by all the negativity that people here care a lot about this, but I really don't understand why. What's so important about keeping the name of the branch "master"?
If we are going this route, just in case we should also remove the word "default", because it means failure to repay a debt, to avoid upsetting somebody in a tough economic situation.
Yeah, it is pretty silly. But we do a lot of silly things; this one seems pretty far down the list.
> we should also remove the word "default", because it means failure to repay a debt, to avoid upsetting somebody in a tough economic situation
That's an interesting idea. Are you personally offended by the term 'default'?
Heck, I worked on a repo where "master" was 2 years untouched, "rc" was like 8 months untouched and effectively deployment, "next" was effectively the release candidate but also used in production elsewhere, so it was gated like it was a master branch, and everything else was dev. Yeah.