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2020-06-13

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“Master” branch and racism

For some time there are discussions about terms like “master” and “slave” in IT. The terms were used there e.g. to describe the roles of hard-disks quite some time ago and “master” is used by git to name the default branch of a software project. While the former is outdated due to technical progress the latter it still in wide use – including my own projects.

The current racism debate was a good enough reason to change that. While I don’t think that the term master is inherently racist and in fact predates slavery and is used even now in many other contexts – like master/apprentice, or master in the sense of a original (book, movie, audio-track etc.), or master in terms of accomplishments, or master in context of devotion etc. – it’s not worth the time to argue about some word that might make feel some people uncomfortable. So I wrote a small shell script to automate the process as far as possible (with some help):

#!/bin/sh
#
# Change git `master` branch to `main`.
#
# 2020-06-12  Matthias Watermann  <support@mwat.de>
#-------------------------------------------------------

git branch -m master main || exit
git push -u origin main || exit
git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main || exit
#
echo "
See the web-page shown above and change the default branch on GitHub to 'main'"
read -p "press <RETURN> when done." REPLY
#
git branch -d master 2>/dev/null
git push origin --delete master
git push -u origin main --tags
echo

# _EoF_

After running that script in all my private and public repositories I was finally un-mastered …

Since I didn’t find a way to programmatically change the default branch on ‘GitHub’ the script above pauses for a while until I manually changed the default branch there from master to main.

After running this script in all my git projects there was a single problem remaining: How to make sure that a new git project would start with main as its default branch?

Well, for the locally created git repositories the easiest way I found is setting a command alias:

git config --global alias.init '!git init && git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/main'

Lamentably that doesn’t work. Apparently one can not ‘rename’ an already existing git command. So try it with a new command:

git config --global alias.new '!git init && git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/main'

Now it works and a new git repository gets created with main as its default branch.

Now, what remains is configuring GitHub to use main as the default branch’s name. As far as I see, however, that’s not possible at the moment. Whenever a new GitHub repository is created the default branch is named master. Which means that after creating the new repository one has to create some file (e.g. .gitignore) to make sure that the branch is actually in use and only then change the default branch’s name to something else, e.g. main. – A few days later Microsoft (the now owner of GitHub) declared that they will change the master name.

As a side note: Much more important than to get rid of master branches in software development I feel it necessary to replace terms like blacklist and whitelist which clearly have a racist connotation: black==bad and white==good. However, since I personally don’t use those terms in my development there’s nothing I can do about (apart from talking to others about it).

#Computer #Git @GitHub #Language #Programming #Racism

2018-12-13

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