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If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's all good and well until you start working in a repo that has both master and main branches for some reason, and it is not clear which is actually the master/main branch.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Then you're working in an idiotic repo. You could just as well have have a master and an actual_master branch. Similar idiocy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It only takes one person to fuck it up. I agree it's stupid, but introducing a conflicting standard increases the chances of someone fucking it up in the name of progressiveness. Needless to say I killed off the main branch that someone one had tried to make to replace the master branch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A place I used to work at had that.. The corp had rolled out a non-delete policy with something akin to *master, so when someone made a abrv_master branch it got protected and couldn't be deleted anymore.