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You doth protest too much. Wonder why
Because the argument is stupid. Much like pointers not being a good term to use because it’s rude to point. Or man pages being sexist.
What's stupid is that people like you argue about a branch name instead of just cede the point as if it costs anyone anything to
Actually this cost a lot of time and money. Even today I have to take an extra step to see if master or main is use . Before it was standard.
Curse this
If this was hard for your company to change, you did things wrong. I work with git everyday and I've no idea what extra step you mean. Git software of all stripes will show you front and center what branches exist and what's default. People pissed about this just wanna whine and they can downvote me a million times if they want