According to the statement made by Github CEO Nat Friedman, Github has changed the term “master” to “main” (master) as it refers to slavery.

Github, a code sharing platform, tends to remove things that may be offensive to black developers against the current racist incidents.

On this move, the platform “master” ( It aims to use the alternative words “main” (master) and “secondary” (secondary) instead of “master” and “slave” (slave).. In addition to these, it is on the agenda to use “allow list” and “deny/exclude list” instead of “blacklist” and “whitelist”.

Github ‘s concern that led to this decision is that the continued use of such terms may further strengthen racism.. In an academic article written by an academic group in 2018, it was stated that “Terms like these not only reflect the culture of racism, but also support strengthening and perpetuating it.” Aiming

The technology world also supported the Black Lives Matter movement, which is spreading in America. In the past days, giant companies such as Twitter, Uber, Amazon and Microsoft have taken action against racism and police violence..

Last week on Github, PHPUnit and Curl projects announced that they will no longer use the terms blacklist and whitelist in their issues.. Likewise, OpenZFS announced that it will remove all commits that contain the word slave.

Gabriel Csapo, who works as a Software Engineer at LinkedIn, tweeted last week that he took part in the update of racist terms in all Microsoft’s internal libraries.

Developers would create a second version of the master on Github and merge their changes to the source code into this master. However, Github will now use a term such as “main, default, primary or root” instead of master. so sure that even if Git doesn’t make this change, Github will change the term “master” independently.

Google Chrome developer Una Kravets also announced that terms like “master” will be removed in Google’s projects and replaced with more neutral terms.

Kravets tagged Github last week to ask if Github can help follow Google and make big change in the industry. Github CEO Nat Friedman answered this question, “It’s a great idea we’re already working on.” started with. This move was followed by the Python Programming Language, Chromium, Postgre SQL and Redis projects.. However, they could not make a big impact in the software world.

We hope that this change to be made by a large platform like Github will eliminate the situations that may create inequality in software terminology.

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