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It wasn't even tech bros. Some people started using opensource software, discovered the master branch and lost their shit. Nobody meaningful had ever connected the name to anything malevolent, but those people made themselves be offended in the name of people who weren't even offended by it.
Microsoft bought github and didn't want the bad press so they renamed it after the twitter shitstorm. The professional victims then moved on to whatever else made noise on twitter and that was that.
I force all new projects to use master as all my old scripts and repos use master. Twitter shitstorms scan stay where they should be: in the toilet bowl of the internet aka twitter.
And think of all those poor processes being executed and killed.
And most of them are children!
For some of them, specially on servers, the execution drags on for hours and hours. That is just cruelty!
Meanwhile GitHub was (and is) doing contract work for ICE
And yet people still happily use the platform. À la "smash capitalism" sticker on a Macbook Pro.
Curious! I am very intelligent
I don't remember every detail but what I do remember is the wave starting with pre-elon Twitter devs announcing their changes and it started with web services that had master/slave terminology. Some of the new terms did make more sense, but some were clearly stretches. And twitter being based out of SF probably has put forth the effort to hire maybe 5 to 6 black people over it's entire existence, so it felt especially shallow to me at the time. Hence the comment. Obviously there's some assumptions there about twitters hiring practice but..I really don't think I'm wrong, there's definitely a cultural issue out there in the bay.