My controversial opinion is that I still use trunk as the branch name.

"master" makes sense if taken to mean a "master" as in a recording from which other records are made.

my controversial opinion is that it never mattered, all that really mattered was that there was a universal word- changing it to anything would cause at least a few hundred hours of development work and a few hundred additional hours of changing documents and tutorials and stuff.

For what? Main isn’t better if the issue is racism, because “main” has some really negative connotations in Korea (“main” families having servant families).

And, for crying out loud. the tools name is literally a mild british swear word.

I’ve been working with a large European company and it surprises me that they insist on using “master”. They even make other master named branches on the repos as well.

My uncontroversial opinion is that it's the worst when your company uses both, and you have to juggle a dozen different repos that have it this way or that.

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It could not matter less. It's a piece of technical jargon. You learn what it means and move on.

Depending on VCS and branching style, "master, "main", "mainline", or "trunk" might make more sense.

"Master" always made sense to me.

Yep master never made any sense

Disagree, it has been 'a thing'. Both music and film use the term 'master' for production and release. One would make new releases/mixes from masters. Much like one may branch with a repository.

Now, I'll entertain conspiracy for just a moment. There might be concerning roots here with property or ownership... but if that's the case, the problem isn't with the language being descriptive of the system in which it operates.

We won't 'kill all masters' by getting rid of the word. My real conspiracy theory is this is one of many attempts to sow division. Nation-state nonsense.

I still rename my git remotes from origin to gh because less typing is nice.

And diversity was the goal all along, after all.

More seriously though, it should be a policy that the change is atomic; complete or not at all.

I don't know. I was told reliably that he is a fascist and this will be the last election. That democracy is on stake. And democracy obviously lost. So it may be more permanent.

> Just the other day merely mentioning George Floyd's length criminal history and drug use

But like what's the reason to bring it up unless to imply that he deserved to be killed?