From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>, Ryan <rmrmail@gmx.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "master" term - no one cares
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 17:55:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0dddb367-ebf9-930f-1b9c-000a532774d3@iee.email> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s2A7nJDVRPbixPPPtTedg_Q53CEdw+sBpGZwOfQG4EZSg@mail.gmail.com>
On 13/08/2022 04:15, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 10:10 PM Ryan <rmrmail@gmx.com> wrote:
>> I installed the windows version of git today and was annoyed with the “woke” message stating that the “master” branch term will be changed to a different name to be more “inclusive".
>>
>> Don’t waste your time, just get rid of this annoying woke question in your installer. Very annoying!! No one thinks git has anything to do with slavery. On the plus side, git is great, I just started learning it. Thanks!
> This is not a Git issue, this is a Git for Windows[1] issue: they are
> the ones exposing that message to their users at installation time.
>
> You can raise the issue in their issue tracker [2], but I wouldn't
> hold my breath.
>
> [1] https://gitforwindows.org/
> [2] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues
>
Thanks for the comment. The wider point is to ensure that everyone can
choose their own name for their primary line of development (plod), no
matter how fast or slow they plod along.
There is a confusion between the use of the term that refers to the
*personal* mastery of a _craft_ or _artisan_ technique and, at least one
of, the historical choices for the usage of the term 'master', which was
a direct reference to slave servitude. That was for the use of
electrical circuits which would detect the 'tick' of a primary timing
pendulum and then have all the actual clock faces that indicated the
time be _driven_ from that 'master'.
The previous discussion include that of [1], in which I reference the
paper (it's [4]) regarding the chronometer (clock) .
--
Philip
[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/git/4bbc8658-4dad-10ef-65a4-8f0f4f4fffd4@iee.email/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-13 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-13 2:57 "master" term - no one cares Ryan
2022-08-13 3:15 ` Felipe Contreras
2022-08-13 16:55 ` Philip Oakley [this message]
2022-08-14 2:05 ` Felipe Contreras
2022-08-14 8:26 ` demerphq
2022-08-14 17:19 ` Felipe Contreras
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