It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.
It’s all good and well until you start working in a repo that has both master and main branches for some reason, and it is not clear which is actually the master/main branch.
Then you’re working in an idiotic repo. You could just as well have have a master and an actual_master branch. Similar idiocy.
A place I used to work at had that… The corp had rolled out a non-delete policy with something akin to
*master, so when someone made aabrv_masterbranch it got protected and couldn’t be deleted anymore.It only takes one person to fuck it up. I agree it’s stupid, but introducing a conflicting standard increases the chances of someone fucking it up in the name of progressiveness. Needless to say I killed off the main branch that someone one had tried to make to replace the master branch.
