GitHub replacing "Master" with "Main" from next month

I know I have an unpopular opinion but I do think small changes like the one Microsoft is making (including the time investment required to make it happen and the time investment that everyone else need to make to adopt the change) is part of the price to pay for change.

It's not about the sign "master" in the git universe but more about being willing to move on with our culture. I understand that no one thinks of branch master and branch slave as programming or metaphorical concepts, however the word master has become contaminated and it shouldn't be that hard for an advanced culture to just drop it and move on.

I seriously struggle to see why people (among with there must be a serious % of united states citizen, tho whom this matter is more relevant) are so solidified against this change. Of course it will cause headaches. Of course it will break things. And of course it's mostly symbolic, or driven by economic objectives. That's how cultural shifts happen. The only reason I can see for this resistance is the very thing that fuels racism, especially passive racism, in the United States. Being unwilling to pay a price, no matter how small, in order to change something, no matter how small.

Of course renaming master into main won't solve police violence and structural racism. But it exposes us to the truth of how much we are willing to sacrifice for change.

Microsoft has made the change opt in and won't affect existing repos. However every time this topic is shared on reddit, redditors lose their minds.

I don't want to offensive but I can't help to think that people are lazy racist fucks.

Everyone has their reasons I'm sure, but that's what it looks like.

As for me, I'm quite happy of this small change and I plan to migrate existing repos to use the main branch.

/r/github Thread Link - craffic.co.in