On: Gitlab default branch name changes to main

[this_was_posted]

by that logic, would the linux command "kill" also be offensive enough to the relatives of murder victims that it warrants a rename?

[furgooswft13 → this_was_posted]

Give em a few months.

[rvnx → furgooswft13]

Shouldn't the real name of this software be "signal" anyway ?

[kevincox → rvnx]

But the default signal is one that "asks" the process to quit. Therefore killing it is fairly descriptive. I can ask someone who doesn't know much about computers what "killing" a program will do and they understand.

signal is not a bad name but `signal 123` is far less obvious than `kill 123`. Of course `signal -USR1 123` is far more obvious than `kill -USR1 123` so there are tradeoffs.