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		wokwokwok on June 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Easily rename your Git default branch from master ... It costs basically nothing to do this if you feel strongly about it. It costs you literally nothing if you don’t care / don’t agree and don’t do it yourself. Just live and let live; is being outraged by it not just as bad as what you’re criticising? Should we care what other people call their branches now?!!? How regressive.

pensatoio on June 11, 2020 | [–]

We should all care, because the larger cultural trend is a detriment to free thought and speech.

esyir on June 10, 2020 | [–]

I'm just going to wait for the other shoe to drop when campaigns start getting waged to ban the "racist" master branch.

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