Subject: Re: Rename offensive terminology (master)

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:23:13 -0700

Hi Abram,

Abram Wiebe wrote:

> We run into this kind of issue in software all the time, which is
> why you see packages like PHP deprecate interfaces… but then still
> need to keep them around for decades, simply out of fear of how much
> would break if they actually took them out.

You might be comforted to find that the series at [1] allows
requesting the previous behavior by running

	git config --global core.mainBranch master

If that does not work in your setup, we want to know.  This same
setting also allows tooling authors to experiment with the new default
early.  Hopefully this can be useful.

Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/