alt Hacker NewsAlso, git's "master" branch is named after a master recording or master copy, the canonical original from which duplicates are made. There is literally no reason for it be offensive except for those who retroactively associate the word with slavery.
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imdsm • yesterday at 5:08 PM
I'll change my default branches to main when Masterclass change their name to Mainclass
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ffsm8 • yesterday at 5:10 PM
Yeah, with replica it made a little sense. Was still silly, but at least the official master/slave terminology actually didn't fully make sense either... So the replica rebrand felt justified to me.
With git it was basically entirely driven by SJW that felt empowered by people accepting the replica rebrand
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Nope, the term comes from bitkeeper which does refer to master/slave.
See this email for some references:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...