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<img src="/static/images/notes/github-rename-master/blm-topic.png" width="865" height="162" alt="Black lives matter." />
In the midst of this year's long-overdue support of the [**Black Lives Matter**](https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/) movement and calls to action in the US and around the world, a [new spotlight](https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/msg00066.html) has been placed on unchecked invocations of racially charged language in the computer science world, no matter how big or small — like the long-standing and, until recently, widely accepted terms ["master" and "slave"](https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-00.html#master-slave) as an oppressive metaphor for ownership/importance.
When somebody pointed out the negative connotations of Git projects being created with a branch named `master` by default, and the possibility of this making minorities feel even more unwelcome in an industry already [lacking diversity](https://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/diversity-in-tech/), GitHub CEO [Nat Friedman](https://github.com/nat) quietly [announced a plan](https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1271253144442253312) to change this on Twitter (ignore the replies for your sanity):
<tweet id="1271253144442253312" />
<Tweet id="1271253144442253312" />
I think many people misunderstood this tweet to mean GitHub will forcefully rename the `master` branch of all existing projects, which would break _millions_ of programmers' workflows. If anything, it's more likely a name such as `main` will replace `master` as **the default when creating a new repository**, but that change hasn't been made yet. [GitLab is also discussing](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/221164) a similar switch to `main` as the default name. (Ideally, these changes would be made in tandem with the actual Git codebase, too. [~~But this doesn't seem likely.~~](https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAOAHyQwyXC1Z3v7BZAC+Bq6JBaM7FvBenA-1fcqeDV==apdWDg@mail.gmail.com/t/))