• CubitOom
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      12 days ago

      My scrum master said that we need new tickets to update the git branches and pipelines to use main instead of master since master was a bad word.

      I asked him what his job title was again and there was a pause.

      Then he said we can’t say that we are going to groom the code base anymore.

      • @[email protected]
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        812 days ago

        If we are not grooming the codebase, are we then waxing it?

        Or is it more eco-friendly to let the codebase grow wild and untrimmed?

      • snooggums
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        812 days ago

        I’m gonna go ahead and assume your scrum main doesn’t groom themselves.

    • @[email protected]
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      1112 days ago

      I know someone with a master’s degree from university.

      Well, he cut me a golden master copy of the track, anyway.

    • Photuris
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      812 days ago

      I agree that it’s pathetic. I’ve never been a fan of virtue signaling.

      In the other hand, “main” is easier to type than “master” (or “trunk,” for that matter). So I’ve made peace with it.

      • snooggums
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        512 days ago

        Trunk would be better because of all the branches.

      • Derpgon
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        Why not change “walkie talkie” to “radio phone”? It is so much cleaner.

        Because change for the sake of change always brings more work than what it saves.

        Why change something that works and everyone recognizes it? Of course, if this debate was there when the standard was created…

      • @[email protected]
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        1212 days ago

        Because it is a historically settled down terminology that everyone understands and there is no adequate reason to change it.

        • @[email protected]
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          1012 days ago

          everyone understands

          no, new people learn git every day.

          ‘main’ is much clearer. It’s maybe not the same readability gain as ‘blocklist/allowlist’ over ‘blacklist/whitelist’, but it’s still there.