I switched from Github to Gitlab after this change. Political correctness is a great way to know that a company has the completely wrong focus and will be unable to innovate and create good products.
Now for some notes on your comment:
- Gitlab has switched the name of the master branch too
- The point is not that it is harmful or bad to do so, and anyone actually crusading against this change as if it was some kind of a slippery slope leading to the downfall of their subculture or even civilization may want to think about their priorities and sense of hyperbole.
- This is not at all what the article complains about. The author argues that this is essentially a form of virtue signalling that allows essentially overpaid white engineers to pat themselves in the back without putting in actual work and money for diversity, inclusion, and equality; a symbolic change that is not rooted in materialism.
Not without getting downvoted to oblivion for the only reason which is having an opposing opinion.
> Gitlab has switched the name of the master branch too
Yes I have been made aware of that now.
> The point is not that it is harmful or bad to do so, and anyone actually crusading against this change as if it was some kind of a slippery slope leading to the downfall of their subculture or even civilization may want to think about their priorities and sense of hyperbole.
I don't even understand this sentence.
> - This is not at all what the article complains about. The author argues that this is essentially a form of virtue signalling that allows essentially overpaid white engineers to pat themselves in the back without putting in actual work and money for diversity, inclusion, and equality; a symbolic change that is not rooted in materialism.
So.. it's exactly what the article complains about?
You have no idea why people downvote things. I find these discussions trite and boring.
1. https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/03/10/new-git-default-bra...
Well, they gave admins the option to change the default branch name to whatever they like, and they've announced they're changing from master to main by default in the next two months or so: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/03/10/new-git-default-bra...
You may as well stop using Git completely then, since Git itself uses main as recommended.
The default branch name in Git, as of v2.31 (released two days ago), is master.
Has this changed?
Ah ah. You didn't believe you could run away, did you?
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/03/10/new-git-default-bra...