[llvm-dev] Inclusive language in LLVM: can we rename `master` branch?

Mikhail Maltsev via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Jun 19 04:31:54 PDT 2020


On 19/06/2020 10:50, Mehdi AMINI via llvm-dev wrote:

> As we intend to be an inclusive community, I propose that we change the name of 
> our development branch and that we adopt instead a more neutral terminology for 
> the LLVM monorepo. Possible names are "dev", "trunk", "main", "default", ...
> 
If possible could you please avoid using the name "trunk". At Arm we already use 
the trunk branch in our downstream repository, so we would have to rename 
"trunk" to something else and that would actually require more effort than 
renaming the master branch.

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Regards,
    Mikhail Maltsev


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