Apparently git did inherit master from bitkeeper which had master and slave (replica) repositories. https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/

Apparently git did inherit master from bitkeeper which had master and slave (replica) repositories. https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/HOWTO.ask#L223 https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H...