• chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Not gonna lie, the master branch thing has been perceived as problematic but I don’t typically see an issue with it. It’s similar to master bedroom or bath. Kind of fucked up name origin, but I don’t think anyone’s really making a fuss about it.

    Whatever the fuck you’re doing though feels like some gross, racist fantasy. It’s really weird, dude. If you think that’s funny you might need to go talk to some real people or touch grass.

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      Wtf are you talking about? It doesn’t have a fucked up name origin at all. It was named “master” as in “master recording”, like in music production. Proof: https://x.com/xpasky/status/1271477451756056577.

      Master/slave concepts were never a thing in git. The whole renaming thing was really fucking stupid. Caused plenty of breakage of scripts and tools for absolutely no good reason whatsoever.

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        2 months ago

        Alright. Doesn’t change my main point. Which is the person’s name for the master branch is fucking weird.