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Code-hosting portal GitHub is reportedly working on replacing the programming term “master” with a neutral term such as “main” in an effort to avoid references to slavery. The move is part of a leftist push to change the language of coding by removing terms deemed racist, sexist, and otherwise “offensive.”
ZDNet reports that the code-hosting platform GitHub is planning to replace the term “master” on its service with a more natural term such as “main” in order to avoid any reference to slavery, according to the company’s CEO.
A growing movement in the world of tech is pushing for changes to coding languages in order to avoid terms that may be offensive to developers in the black community. These include remove terms such as “master” and “slave” and replacing them with “main/default/primary” and “secondary.” Terms such as “blacklist” and “whitelist” would also be replaced with “allow list” and “deny/exclude list.”
However, some have noted that some terms such as “blacklist” are not rooted in slavery or the oppression of black people, but actually refers to the practice of using black books in Medieval England to record the name of problematic workers to avoid hiring in the future
What are you using for version control?
ThatGuy says
What are you using for version control?
In my 25 years of Programming, I have never once needed to go back to code I created weeks ago.
If I pushed something and it broke, which is rare, I just spend the few minutes to find the simple oversight missed while pushing the update.
I hate working with knee jerkers, have faith in your code, we'll get through this.
"While those around you are melting down and losing their shit over a 501, calling for a revert, the cooler heads are updating the web config. "
The only version control I ever liked and was almost painless, was Tortoise SVN.
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I changed all my master/slave code references to pimp/ho years ago.I think switching to SATA years ago did away with that whole "problem."
Patrick saysI'm very happy I closed my github account.
What are you using for version control?
ThatGuy saysPatrick saysI'm very happy I closed my github account.
What are you using for version control?
Plain old git.
Plain old git.
Isn't the whole "git" thing racist? I'm thinking "git goin'" and "git-ty up doggy" type phrases.Plain old git.
It's racist AF:
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