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txcwg002 on May 1, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Redis is open source again

I believe it. There are companies that invested hundreds of engineering hours to rename master to main.

xandrius on May 2, 2025 | [–]

That is even more ridiculous, at least switching to a clean fork of Redis has business reasons. Following the latest cultural fads, less so.

patates on May 2, 2025 | [–]

One would find it hard to believe how often we hardcoded "master" to every corner of the software that ever touches any VCS.

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