• philomory@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    There were such a thing as slave branches, though; not in git itself, but git was modeled after (and inherited the term ‘master’ from) bitkeeper, which had ‘master’ and ‘slave’ repositories.

    I’m not sure that’s super relevant or important, these days, but, it feels worth getting the history right. The term ‘master’ as used in git can be traced directly to a master/slave usage, not a ‘master copy’ usage.

    • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Good point, I stand corrected then! That makes it trickier to talk about because it could just as easily mean the other usage of master now while still historically being master/slave.