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It’s not. It comes from master/slave, and I’m desperately trying to find the mailing-list email where someone (I wanna say on a BSD mailing list, but it could b
by jacksnipe 6y ago
It’s not. It comes from master/slave, and I’m desperately trying to find the mailing-list email where someone (I wanna say on a BSD mailing list, but it could be anything tbh) traces the etymology backwards through different VCS branches until we get to one where the concepts are clearly “master/slave”. If anybody has the link handy I’d really appreciate it.
- prezjordan 6y agohttps://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/msg00066.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/... via https://twitter.com/tobie/status/1270290278029631489 https://twitter.com/tobie/status/1270290278029631489
- fhars 6y agoThis mail discusses some of the origins https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/msg00066.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/... It argues that git‘s master branch is most likely directly derived from the master and slave repository concept in bitkeeper.