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GitHub to replace ‘master’ with ‘main’ starting next month – ZDNet
All new Git repositories on GitHub will be named “main” instead of “master” starting October 1, 2020.
Starting next month, all new source code repositories created on GitHub will be named “main” instead of “master” as part of the company’s effort to remove unnecessary references to slavery and replace them with more inclusive terms.
GitHub repositories are where users and companies store and synchronize their source code projects.
By default, GitHub uses the term “master” for the primary version of a source code repository. Developers make copies of the “master” on their computers into which t…
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