Reply to post: Re: RE: Master / slave

GitLab latest to ditch 'master' as default initial branch name: It's now simply called 'main'

geekguy

Re: RE: Master / slave

Aside no one ever said branches were slaves to the master branch. Its people projecting onto that wording, this is an example of things being taken a bit too far. I totally understand main, it's a good word and describes the branch well, but so did master. Maybe it's me and I'm out of step or a bit older now (46) but I don't see the issue with master at all. However if some people find it wholly offensive and want it changed then perhaps we should welcome the change to main I mean I might go the full hog and just call all my default branches weeble :)

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