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From: "Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] am: counteract gender bias
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 09:50:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANQwDwfB=NuZuzVJUOLncF-T8gLzJne01i1K2zrXJwgKBLidfg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ceb80e45d1f02b71cc5ad2d7ded04360c530a9a8.1467962234.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Hello Johannes,

On 8 July 2016 at 09:17, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> Since d1c5f2a (Add git-am, applymbox replacement., 2005-10-07), i.e. for
> almost 11 years already, we used a male form to describe "the other
> tree".
>
> While most likely unintended, this gave the erroneous impression as if
> the Git developers thought of users as male, and were unaware of the
> important role in software development played by female actors such as
> Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton. In fact, the first
> professional software developers were all female.
>
> Let's change those unfortunate references to the gender neutral "their
> tree".

In my opinion more important reason than being "gender neutral" is that
Git uses the "ours" / "theirs" terminology in all other places - this patch
makes Git consistent and code easier to understand (it also removes
weird plural "ours_tree" vs singular "his_tree" in code arguments).

But nevermind that...

> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
> Published-As: https://github.com/dscho/git/releases/tag/gender-bias-v2

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-08  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-07 11:47 [PATCH] am: counteract gender bias Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-07 12:49 ` Mike Hommey
2016-07-07 13:24   ` Jakub Narębski
2016-07-07 14:17     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-07 16:04     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-08  7:08       ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-07 14:12   ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-08  7:17 ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-08  7:50   ` Jakub Narębski [this message]
2016-07-08 21:39   ` Junio C Hamano

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