On: Could we please get back the master-branch on this...

[WalterGR]

Is this interesting for any reason beyond the obvious culture war one? This is the 6th highest-ranking submission over the past 12 months:

GitHub, fuck your name change (mooseyanon.medium.com)

3353 points by leontrolski | 10 months ago | 2084 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26487854

Presumably breakage was anticipated back then?

What does this add?

[bewaretheirs → WalterGR]

It shows ongoing impact rather than a one-time cost from an incompatible change.

[WalterGR → bewaretheirs]

For one team? at one org who didn’t keep their stuff up-to-date regarding one project.

A collection of tickets such as this one plus some analysis? Could be interesting. But this is just noise.

Edit: To be interesting, that analysis would have to compare with other kinds of breaking changes that happen in software constantly.

[drewcoo → bewaretheirs]

Or does the exception prove the rule?

The fact that this is the only instance of problems says that the change effectively caused no ongoing problems.