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Discussion on: Github is replacing the word master to avoid slavery references. Deal with it.

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Replies for: It’s not that simple. Many systems that integrate with git (e.g. CI/CD) assume master is the default branch.

 
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Luke Inglis •

I would hope that any those systems aren’t so inflexible as to not allow you to specify the name of the default branch on configuration

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Dan Dascalescu • • Edited

Why do that work at all? Who does it help?