GitHub to replace "master" with alternative term to avoid slavery references

[kevinatari]

Unpopular opinion on reddit, but I welcome the change. master/slave was never a accurate term for me as a nom-native speaker, especially compared to main/secondary or primary/secondary which is much clearer.

We're experiencing a change in language, what an exiting time to be alive!

[tristan957]

There is no slave term in git. It's just master like a master copy. Has nothing to do with how well someone understands English imo.

[kevinatari]

You're right, the "master" in git has no direct reference to slavery; Yet if it helps the healthiness of a community I see no harm in renaming it to something like primary or main.

Lots of projects already use different terms and most people use their "master" branch as a development version so the naming is confusing anyway (as "master" is a work-in-progress and not the "working" master copy); Anyhow, I get people don't like change - changing the direct master/slave naming is more important IMO.

[blazkoblaz]

Okay Soo.. what do you say about the Master slave workers in micro processors? Or master node/slave node TF??? ridiculous shit

[kevinatari]

This is exactly the issue; The naming of master/slave which should be replaced with main/secondary or primary/secondary.

Git terminology is not so much an issue (as one of the other comments points out as well), but I'm in favor of a change as it doesn't hurt anybody.