GitHub is working on replacing the term "master" on its service with a neutral term like "main" to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery, its CEO said on Friday. The code-hosting portal is just ...
Since its inception, the Git DVCS tool's default branch name was set to master. Every Git repository had a master branch unless a developer took explicit steps to remove it, which was rarely ever done ...
In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, GitHub, a Microsoft-owned company that provides hosting for software development, is working on removing coding terms like "master" and "slave." In ...