From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9BCD1F55B for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2020 10:50:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728264AbgFJKu0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:50:26 -0400 Received: from cpanel7.indieserve.net ([199.212.143.8]:43337 "EHLO cpanel7.indieserve.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728149AbgFJKu0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:50:26 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 3536 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:50:25 EDT Received: from cpeac202e043973-cmac202e043970.sdns.net.rogers.com ([174.114.100.179]:33112 helo=localhost.localdomain) by cpanel7.indieserve.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1jixOJ-002Xos-0z; Wed, 10 Jun 2020 05:51:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 05:51:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Simon Pieters cc: Junio C Hamano , "brian m. carlson" , git@vger.kernel.org, don@goodman-wilson.com Subject: Re: Rename offensive terminology (master) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20200505231641.GH6530@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel7.indieserve.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cpanel7.indieserve.net: authenticated_id: rpjday+crashcourse.ca/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Authenticated-Sender: cpanel7.indieserve.net: rpjday@crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 9 Jun 2020, Simon Pieters wrote: > Hi Junio, > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 6:02 PM Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > Simon Pieters writes: > > > > > If someone is interested in helping with this, please follow up with > > > Don. But I would like to ask again for git mainline to seriously > > > consider adopting this change, given the information presented above > > > and the ongoing movement against systemic racism. > > > > I am OK in principle if a future version of Git, when used by a new > > user of Git who does not have any custom configuration, wrote a > > string other than 'master' in .git/HEAD when "git init" is run. > > > > Picking a good replacement word to mean the primary branch is > > tricky, though. Just having a notion that one is special among > > many (i.e. the primary-ness of the thing being named with a word > > that will replace 'master') may already be offending to some folks. > > I find this response not satisfactory: ... snip ... "I can't breathe ... I can't breathe ..." "Well, tell you what, what if we rename the initial default branch in a distributed version control system for you?" *Now* do you understand how asinine all this sounds? rday