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No, he's complaining that they didn't ask him specifically. It really easy to find black developers who were consulted and agree with the change.

Here we go (this took under 5 seconds for me to Google)

https://dev.to/afrodevgirl/replacing-master-with-main-in-git...

Now there's duelling anecdata and the OP provides no suggestions on how to reconcile them.



From the article:

"So if this change did not really even attempt to involve the black developer community..."


They could simply rename their own branches.


...yes? No one is forcing anyone to do anything.

I don’t think anyone expects “main” (“develop”, “default”, “trunk”, ...) to ever become the default branch name.


It is already the default branch name... That's the point of this whole fluff. Nobody would care about people changing their own branch names.




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