• sping@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    377·
    8 months ago

    And yet there’s a big push to rename git “master” branches, which have no slave connotations and are more analogous to master recordings.

    Its not like I’ll fight it, but it’s stupid.

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
      295·
      8 months ago

      It is stupid, and it’s because of a failure to understand the nuance.

      I will not inconvenience myself or anyone else by making any changes to existing configurations, which will surely break workflows, but I don’t give a shit what the main branch is called as long as it’s obvious.

        • sping@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          31·
          8 months ago

          Black/white as bad/good is a clear case where there is a clear logical reason to change IMO. That perpetuates unconscious bias.

          • jsomae@lemmy.ml
            3·
            8 months ago

            Evil forces of darkness and good forces of light is engrained into our cultural DNA. Night=dangerous, day=safe is just something you have to learn early as a woman, it is a fact of society and we can’t pretend it isn’t.

            Dark lord, black rider, white knight… why focus on whitelist/blacklist specifically?

              • jsomae@lemmy.ml
                1·
                8 months ago

                You’re probably right about that. It is irritating though that we’ve added more syllables.

                I’m just grumpy because I don’t like random change for no reason. I think I’m probably in the 99th percentile for how irritated I get when software or a website changes its layout. I also haven’t seen any trustworthy anecdotes of people who find the term blacklist/whitelist offensive to them, but I don’t really go looking either. Perhaps I should.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
      2·
      8 months ago

      I thought it was dumb too but, to be honest, I kind of prefer using “main” now. It’s quicker to type lol