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knowitnone3
I think I'll keep my slave branches thank you very much
mmastrac
This was always a silly change but I save two keystrokes a few times daily so I guess there's that.
walterbell
https://www.etymonline.com/word/main

  main(n.)

  Old English mægen (Mercian megen) "power, bodily strength; force, violent effort; strength of mind or will; efficacy; supernatural power," from Proto-Germanic *maginam "power" (source also of Old High German megin "strength, power, ability"), reconstructed to be from a suffixed form of PIE root *magh- "to be able, have power."

  The original sense of "power" is preserved in phrase might and main. Also used in Middle English for "royal power or authority" (c. 1400), "military strength" (c. 1300), "application of force" (c. 1300).
saurik
I really really wish the ecosystem had simply gone with "trunk" (which is also what Subversion had used, in addition to actually matching the metaphor in play; though, I get that some people don't consider trunk to be a branch... but it is already used in this context for "trunk-based development").
foobarkey
I thought this nonsense was about to go away noticed even github starting to default to master or maybe it was the terminal git. Sensoring tech words about things that happened 300 years ago is not OK
conception
300 huh? That’s uhh that’s pretty inaccurate.
ripbozo
I don't understand why there was such manufactured outrage over master branches, but not master recordings.
gitaarik
Or databases and harddisk redundancy configurations. Or Zen masters. Or masterclass. Or a master's degree. Or mastermind.

We should get rid of all these words right?

titaniumtown
I like "main" just because it's a cleaner word than "master", I never really had an attachment to the word "master" in itself.
fkdk
I have seen dozens of hours spent on debugging issues associated with this switch. One has to wonder how much manpower went into it globally.

Is there some quantitative evidence that this made the world a better place?

baggy_trough
'main' is objectively better than 'master' because it's easier to type and easier to say. The only problem is the noxious politics associated with it.
montefischer
This could be a great thesis topic for a Main’s degree in sociology.
OGEnthusiast
A time capsule from a different era of tech. (And one we could return to again in the future, who knows.)
greatgib
It's the novlang of 1984. Its shows were our society is headed, slowly but surely.

Little bit little remove or ban the language that might be offensive to some. Twist the meaning of things to ensure that normal words become "shameful" words when used. Until people forget. Then you can reach this society were there is no contestation, no social agitation and political unrest because the concept doesn't even exist.