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<title>opinions on The Git Thing</title>
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<link rel="canonical" href="https://blake.instantfloppy.net/textediting" />
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<p><a href="/">~ Return to the rest of the site</a></p>
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<h1>My opinions on git stuff</h1>
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<h3>updated 2020-10-15</h3>
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<p>
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A lot of the Web (or, at least, the web <i>I</i> follow, which is a bunch of
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weirdos with fringe beliefs that affect almost nothing in the real world,
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except for when they do, which nearly always ends horribly*) seems to be fussed
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about GitHub's recent (as of now, though it was a long time coming) decision to
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make the default git branch `main` rather than `master`. Do I agree with this
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decision myself? Of course! A very nice person on the website
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<a href="http://twitter.com">Twitter.com</a> explained this to me in the
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following way that made me finally understand it: If you're a black person
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whose ancestors were freed from the shackles of slavery a couple generations
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ago, you shouldn't still be pushing your work to master. And there are
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counter-arguments to this too; <i>the git master doesn't represent a
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master/slave relationship!</i>, <i>etymologically it doesn't make a whole lot
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of sense!</i>. Yeah? It's just sensitivity, really. I'm going to make my main
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git branches main because I want my projects to be accessible to all those that
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want to help - and a part of this is accepting changes to common practice that
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are made in good faith. Also because main is a better term anyway in my opinion
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because it's more descriptive and because 4 characters are faster to type than
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6.
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</p>
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<p>
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"<i>Where does it end?</i>" is a question I hear a lot. I'm not the one to ask.
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Our words have a greater meaning than we know. I'm sure in fifty years many of
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my opinions will be "products of their time" - and good! They are. In the
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nineteenth century the goal was to free the slaves (a goal not yet realized),
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in the twentieth century the goal was to have equality between men and women
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(not yet realized) of all colors (not yet realized). In the twenty first
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century we're now (some more keenly than others) aware of the LGBT+ community,
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being the community of those with non-standard identities and romantic/sexual
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orientations, and the importance of protecting the rights its individuals have.
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What's going to happen in the twenty second century? Who are we oppressing <i>
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right now</i> - who am <i>I</i> oppressing right now? I don't know. Time will
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tell if you listen for it.
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</p>
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<p>
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This whole blag rant was much deeper than I intended for it to be, but I feel
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comfortable with my opinion. If I'm wrong I'm wrong in areas in which I meant
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well, and that's good enough.
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</p>
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<p><small>
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* See: incels <b>(I swear to god I'm not an incel I just kept track of the community
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because I thought it was funny in a depraved sort of way)</b>, qanon <b>(none of this
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list makes me look good)</b>, furries.
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</small></p>
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