[libre-riscv-dev] renaming master branch

Hendrik Boom hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Sun Jun 21 22:17:29 BST 2020


On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 12:54:31PM -0700, Jacob Lifshay wrote:
> 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.

This seems worth discussion only *after* we have met our deadlines.

-- hendrik



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