This is not a GitHub issue - Git itself now asks you if you would like to use the more inclusive `main`.
I personally don't care for these changes, I will likely keep using `master` because I "automatically" type it in my workflow, and I find master to be a lot more descriptive. `main` is the name of my main.c, main.go or main.cpp file, the name of the main function, etc. I dont need another "main" to mess up my autocomplete.
If they (github/microsoft) want to make a difference, I'm there with them, if they decide they want to put a few more millions a year towards getting lower-class children a higher education, I'm happily going to buy some GitHub pro or whatever.
Until then, they need to step down and just be the tool they are, nothing more.
> Git itself now asks you if you would like to use the more inclusive `main`.
No it doesn’t. It says this:
hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name
hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all
hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:
hint:
hint: git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>
hint:
hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and
hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command:
hint:
hint: git branch -m <name>
> This is not a GitHub issue - Git itself now asks you if you would like to use the more inclusive `main`.
When does git asks this? From what I've seen, they just introduced a new config to change the name of the default branch, which is quite nice in itself (as of Git 2.28, released 27th July 2020).
I personally don't care for these changes, I will likely keep using `master` because I "automatically" type it in my workflow, and I find master to be a lot more descriptive. `main` is the name of my main.c, main.go or main.cpp file, the name of the main function, etc. I dont need another "main" to mess up my autocomplete.
If they (github/microsoft) want to make a difference, I'm there with them, if they decide they want to put a few more millions a year towards getting lower-class children a higher education, I'm happily going to buy some GitHub pro or whatever.
Until then, they need to step down and just be the tool they are, nothing more.