> On 4 May 2019, at 00:29, [email protected] wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 5:09 AM, Bastien Nocera <[email protected]> wrote:
>> - And to what?
>> A few possible names were mentioned/used. "mainline" was thought to
>> have strong connections to drug use, "release" (use in the contributor
>> covenant) seems to restrictive (we also do releases from other
>> branches). I like "main" because it keeps 2 letters from "master" so
>> diminishes the need to retrain your muscle memory. "trunk" definitely
>> makes sense when talking about branches but doesn't have the "ma<tab>"
>> advantage.
> 
> "main" seems like it should be safe, yet since you linked to 
> https://github.com/ContributorCovenant/contributor_covenant/issues/569 it 
> seems fair to quote the second comment there:
> 
>> "Main" suggests inequality, I'm against that.
> 
> So good luck finding an inoffensive name for the, er, primary branch. (I 
> probably shouldn't say "primary," though, since primacy also suggests 
> inequality....)

Seriously Michael, you’re embarrassing yourself.

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