GitHub is working on replacing the term "master" on its service with a neutral term like "main" to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery, its CEO said on Friday.

GitHub renamed the master branch to main for any Git repository, as it addresses cultural change like so many organizations that have nixed master-slave terminology in a time of social unrest.

GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018.

An interview with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on the company's journey, four years after its acquisition by Microsoft.

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