On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 3:13 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > You can’t erase history, and that some words that had negative connotations > in the past are used for new, entirely unrelated purposes today is no wonder.
I think that the change from master to main makes more sense from the semantic point of view since main is more accurate, I still haven't seen a `slave` branch in any repository. So I think that the "master" name was chosen as in "master key". In Spanish "master" translates to "principal" which translates back to "main", and also to "maestro", which translates back to "teacher". So I think that the GitHub change does nothing against slavery, but the change ripples with side effects as the one that started this mail thread. In any case, it says more about them than about me, and since this is not mandatory, I have no urge to rename anything soon. Regards, Esteban A. Maringolo
