It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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    2 months ago

    I think that’s because in computer science most master/slave nomenclature comes from hardware with a command/control structure (still notable in things like Spark where the namenode/master node controls the data nodes).

    GIT just took naming conventions from other existing design patterns (although I should probably look up sources to verify that assumption).