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 ...

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GitHub is looking to replace racially insensitive terms like “master” and “slave” across the website and its documentation, CEO Nat Friedman said over the weekend. The announcement comes as enormous ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. One way to integrate branch updates and changes into the master is through a merge. Another way ...

The software site GitHub has announced that it’s abandoning old language in favour for more politically correct terms. GitHub Chief Executive Nat Friedman said on Twitter that the company is changing ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Developers should be aware of a few caveats when they rebase GitHub repositories, especially ...

A few years ago, Karla Monterroso was at an airport when she noticed a glitch in a computer monitor that would normally display flight information. Instead, the screen showed the text “Master/Slave,” ...