Discussion on renaming master branch gets heated, then shut down

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6 years ago

The discussion about renaming "master" branches to "main" or "default" in git for windows to address issues with "non-inclusive naming" has become very heated. The vast majority of developers argued against the change, some very vocal.

This resulted in git for windows administrators to go full exclusive and shut down the discussion completely for non team members, block many users and delete or minimize a large number of tweets.

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2674

The end of the thread looks like a massacre.

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