ZDNet

GitHub to replace "master" with alternative term to avoid slavery references

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 ...
Gizmodo

Github to Remove ‘Master’ and ‘Slave’ Coding Terms Widely Seen as Racially Insensitive

Github is preparing to overhaul coding terminology that has long been criticized for being racially insensitive, the company’s chief executive said. Github, the Microsoft-owned developer platform, is ...
ZDNet

GitHub to replace 'master' with 'main' starting next month

"On Oct. 1, 2020, any new repositories you create will use main as the default branch, instead of master," the company said. Existing repositories that have "master" set as the default branch will be ...
PhoneWorld

Apple Accidentally Leaks Web App Store Front-End Source Code on GitHub

Just hours after launching its new web interface for the Apple App Store, the company’s complete front-end source code ...
TheServerSide

Why GitHub renamed its master branch to main

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 ...
The Next Web

Github plans to replace racially insensitive terms like ‘master’ and ‘whitelist’

Github CEO Nat Friedman said over the weekend that the company is working to replace ‘master’ with a neutral term like ‘main’ to remove references to slavery. The company currently uses ‘master’ to ...