There's a GNOME mailing list discussion which suggests the etymology is different. """ First appearance of "master" in git is in a CVS helper script... Why is

There's a GNOME mailing list discussion which suggests the etymology is different. """ First appearance of "master" in git is in a CVS helper script... Why is that branch called master? Probably because BitKeeper uses "master" for its main branch... But maybe this "master" isn't the same one that's in "master/slave"? """ It then links to a BitKeeper file saying: "We are then going to modify the file on both the master and slave repository and then merge the work." https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/msg00066.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...