Re: Can blind people uses Github and how to do that?
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my guess is the specific instance of GitHub turns out to be the person who said it wasn't technical and the technical people explain why it's a bad idea, then we just never hear anything about it ever again either way.
The issue is that if GitHub changes the default branch name of the repository, then 10 years of documentation and people encoding the assumption that master is special into their tools breaks. You can't fix this by tracking the local branch under a different name from the remote, since a majority of those tools are going to want to clone it themselves (every CI service ever).
So their choices are break the newbie experience by changing the default branch name plus all the scripts and things that assume it's master explode, make everything confusing by not changing the default branch name but changing all the docs to refer to it as "the main branch" which is awkward as hell, or actually go as far as banning master as a branch name. also there's all the old repos you can't do anything about. Maybe they will come up with some clever 4th option, but I doubt it. Individual projects have the flexibility to do this, but that's it.
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