On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 2:48 AM Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com> wrote:
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From: "Chris Angelico" <rosuav@gmail.com> To: "Python-Dev" <python-dev@python.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4:20:19 PM Subject: [Python-Dev] Re: Steering Council update for February
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 12:16 AM Evpok Padding <evpok.padding@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
Apparently renaming a git branch to follow the general convention is now an unbearable outrage.
It is NOT a general convention. It is a push by Microsoft (owners of GitHub). Outside of GitHub, the git command still uses "master" as the default name.
The git project is working on that for a long time and the default will be switched at some point: https://lore.kernel.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2006091126540.482@ZVAVAG-DN14R...
Okay, I wasn't aware of that. Although that is still notable in that it spends a LOT of time talking about the technical consequences of the change. If there were no negative consequences (maybe if this were a greenfield project, or if it happened at the same time as a much larger change like hg->git), it wouldn't make a lot of difference, and go ahead, let the political argument sway the decision. But I detest political changes being forced on everyone when they bring immeasurable benefit in nontechnical areas, while having baggage of actual real problems with actual real compatibility issues. ChrisA