Instead of either, it's good to have a more descriptive primary branch:

git checkout -b dontwritetothisbranchdirectlyyougottaopenaprfirstandhaveitreviewedandapprovedandthenpasstheautomatictests

Try not to make memes that imply you’re not anti-slavery.

I use main because, although I never heard of anybody actually getting offended by master, it costs me nothing to use main instead. Also it looks prettier and seems to be the new convention ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No disrespect, but asking everyone to remove words from the English language because they may offend a small group of oversensitive people is one of the most frustrating social initiatives of our time. "Master" makes sense for the job and unless we're also putting "Slave" and "Cotton" on the dictionary chopping block, the arguement will always seem arbitrary to me.

I use “secondary” as my default branch, because fuck the rules.

I use main as my default branch because it's what Git has been defaulting to for some time now

Master sounded so much cooler man

Like yeah I'm a master of linux

Literally no connotation to slavery when the word slave isn't even used in the git terminology

I use master because I'm nostalgic. If it matters that much, though, I'll start using trunk (like we used to back in the days of SVN).

Oh I don’t give a single fuck about the discussion, it’s technology, not politics. I am more upset that my company has some legacy repositories with master and the newer ones with a main branch. So everytime I want to create a MR with push options via command line I need to change main to master or visa versa.

I also think it's more descriptive. Just like blocklist and allowlist.

m, I win.

Oh, how upset I was by that decision. I still call out GitHub online every now and then thanking them for solving slavery by messing up my deployment scripts and development environments.

I find it funny how many ppl complained about it when it came up. Now it is the default on github and other code forges. And now one cares anymore if it is master or main.

Master gang

It speaks to the deep rooted whiteness of the industry that such a common-sense change is treated as completely bullshit even to this day.

I use master because when I do 'git init .' I get a master branch and I am lazy enough to not rename it. As for typing it later on.. . Well zsh does that for me