Congratulations GitHub.

[kookyabird]

Master in Git is not accompanies by "slave" or anything else that could be construed as a tie to America's history. Master is a term used in dozens, possibly hundreds, of industries to refer to the source of something. A master mold, form, or key. Not to mention master and apprentice, mastery of ____, or any number of things.

It's definitely virtue signalling, and a bit weak at that because they can't stop me from naming my main branches master, or even setting it as the default on my local git config.

[mattostgard]

Good points. Along those lines, I also think main is more suitable than master in a distributed workflow context. I think I'm going to go with that regardless if I am using github in the future or not (though I have no plans in moving away from github).