While the tech industry struggles to address injustice in our society, a small step you can take today is to remove the use of "Master/Slave" terminology from your tools.
git still calls the default branch of repositories 'master', a holdover from BitKeeper, which had both master and slave branches.
It's a bit surprising that this is a bit difficult to stop naming branches 'master'! While you can create a copy of 'master' with a new name, you can't delete 'master' without using the GitHub web interface.
From the cli you can move your branch to a copy (named 'main' in this example) with
git branch -m master main
then push it to GitHub with
git push origin main
But master will still be on GitHub, and you can't delete it since it's the default branch! You'll need to go to github.com and go to Settings>Branches to change the default. Only then can you delete the branch from github with
git push origin --delete master
So how do we make sure that all future repositories we create don't use 'master'?
Thankfully André Arko wrote a useful post on the subject
function git() {
command git "$@"
if [[ "$1" == "init" && "$@" != *"--help"* ]]; then
git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/main
fi
}
With this, every time we initialize a repository with git init
we will immediate move it to use the branch name 'main'