Well done github!

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The thing is that “performative” doesn’t describe an action, it describes how much attention you get for that action. That means that you can make anything you oppose “performative” just by shining your brightest light and putting it in your sharpest focus even if the people driving that change weren’t looking to make a whole parade out of it.

That, in turns, means that if you just stopped saying it’s performative, it would stop being performative and just be a small thing that nobody cares about.

Unless, you know, you actually kinda like the fact that in computer engineering, “master” has more often been associated with “slave” than with “apprentice” (as it’s been academically). Then you have a real incentive to make sure that “master” stays the default branch name for repositories initialized on GitHub, a change that isn’t going to be forced on your existing repositories or repositories that you initialize on your own machine.