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Unpopular opinion: Sticking with master as this is being political correctness taking way to far. Are we also going to rename master-bedrooms? [1]

At least keep the default master and let people customise it however they want.

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/master

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> Are we also going to rename master-bedrooms?

Yes! This is happening! Realtors are often now framing the largest bedroom (often with attached bathroom) as the Primary Bedroom.

How does it affect you?

- Years of muscle memory - git itself uses master - a lot of tooling / commands expect master do they now need to be aware of main vs master - I understand the need for some to allow to change the default but just changing it for everyone by default is a step to far

That tooling is wrong: you could always change the default branch on git.

It may be wrong but it's working so when it stops working that is a quantifiable harm.

Compare that to the expressed but not quantified harm by continuing the status quo.

Once we quantify both, let's talk.

If people keep badgering you to do anything, however seemingly benign, it affects you.

How does it not affect you?

I don't see why not. Main bedroom seems to be more clear and without pesky historical roots.

> this is being political correctness taking way to far

Is this really all that far? Changing the default branch name? What do you feel would be taking political correctness just the right distance?

Replacing the word master in ctrl-r fashion. Master as a word has a far more deeper history than just master-slave

Generally people who are concerned about Political Correctness are defending the status quo. "The right distance" is no change from the status quo. Anything which might move the needle away from the current state is "too far".

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