• undefinedValue@programming.dev
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      8 months ago

      Sadly? Master branch never implied the existence of a slave branch. It was one of the dumbest pieces of woke incursion into tech.

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        8 months ago

        Yes exactly. It’s a reference to the recording industry’s practice of calling the final version of an album the “master” which gets sent for duplication.

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          8 months ago

          In alignment with this, we should not replace the master branch with the main branch, we should replace it with the gold branch.

          Every time a PR gets approval and it’s time to merge, I could declare that the code has “gone gold” and I am not doing that right now!

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            8 months ago

            Merged -> gone gold

            Deployed -> gone platinum

            Gone a week without crashing production -> triple platinum

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        8 months ago

        Yeah agreed. Just another piece of white devs acting like they knew better for everyone.