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But master in git has nothing to do with master-slave... it's nomenclature derives as far as I can tell from the idea of a master copy which is the authoritativ
by meddlepal 6y ago
But master in git has nothing to do with master-slave... it's nomenclature derives as far as I can tell from the idea of a master copy which is the authoritative version of something.
- alwillis 6y agoit literally doesn’t matter what the original rationale for the naming was. impact outweighs intent. and if it impacts even one person, the intent just doesn’t matter. https://twitter.com/vaidehijoshi/status/1271555823714488320?s=21 https://twitter.com/vaidehijoshi/status/1271555823714488320?...
- meddlepal 6y agoMeh, I find that argument less than compelling and a slippery sloap. But hey who am I to judge what is a good or bad use of people's time and political capital? I'll stick with calling my main branches master and if someone doesn't like it they can fork it and keep their own special version just for themselves. Freedom!
- alwillis 6y agoBut master in git has nothing to do with master-slave... Turns out, that’s probably not true, judging from a thread on this email list: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/msg00066.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...