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No, this is a terrifying precedent to set.

You are completely inverting democracy.

If 98% of people vote that something isn't offensive, and 2% vote that it is, and your takeaway from this is "the thing is offensive", then how can anything ever be determined to be not offensive?

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You are not required to change the name of your main branch on existing repos.

If you really want to, you can use "master" as the name on your new repos. You simply have to manually type that in now.

So it’s not really a forced change. It’s a just soft change. Soft like the ocean is soft[1].

Glad we settled that one!

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheCulture

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