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[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 52 points 5 months ago

This. To avoid the "master" branch on our git to be associated with "slave" I now name new branches "bitch"

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

There aren't "slaves" in git, though. The term "master" in that context is that of a master copy.

[-] steventhedev@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Nope. Bitkeeper used it in the master-slave pairing and the term was carried forward. Gitlab did a whole writeup about it.

[-] xilona@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago

"Historically, the default name for this initial branch was master. This term came from Bitkeeper, a predecessor to Git. Bitkeeper referred to the source of truth as the "master repository" and other copies as "slave repositories". This shows how common master/slave references have been in technology, and the difficulty in knowing how the term master should be interpreted."

Excerpt from the link the other member posted above! You're welcome!

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