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johnisgood 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch

It is based on nothing. It is not intended to be offensive, and it is not intended to be about slavery. Similarly how master and slave pins are not either, or how blacklist and whitelist are not about race either!

johnisgood 11 months ago [–]

BTW FreeBSD changed blacklistd to blocklistd. :(

I do not mind blocklistd, but then again, there was nothing wrong with blacklistd either.

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