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majewskytoday at 8:34 AM2 repliesview on HN

> It is literally, the absence of a desire to participate.

I agree with this position, and yet I would argue that, by taking the time to write out this comment, you are acting inconsistenly with your own statement.

I have old repos with "master" and new repos with "main". If someone were to approach me about one of the old repos and ask about the default branch, I would immediately change it to "main" without any hesitation, because it is all but certain that trying to get into an argument will waste more of my time than just doing the change would.


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jchwtoday at 8:59 AM

My desire to not participate does not mean that I don't want to ever talk about it or that I am trying to minimize time wasted arguing about it. Hell, I'm happy to waste time arguing about anything, really. Especially if it's something that annoys me.

inigyoutoday at 10:55 AM

What if someone asked you the same about a new repo?