[libre-riscv-dev] renaming master branch

Jacob Lifshay programmerjake at gmail.com
Sun Jun 21 20:54:31 BST 2020


On Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 19:37 Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know how important we should deem this, but I thought we
> should at least talk about it:
>
> Should we rename the master branch to avoid the association with slavery?
> GitHub, Git, and LLVM are all currently discussing this.


Thank you for all keeping the conversation well-reasoned and civil!

I guess we could summarize the conclusion as:
we're not changing at this time.

It might be worth consideration again if the vast majority of git repos
changes, mostly for consistency's sake.

Jacob


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