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You are mistaken. The terminology came from BitKeeper, which did use the terms in the sense of master and slave repositories: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/de

• ccurrens 6y ago
  The git dev responsible for the choice has said it had nothing to do with master/slave: > "master" as in e.g. "master recording". Perhaps you could say the original, but viewed from the production process perspective. > A clueless Central European youngster whose command of English was mostly illusory came up with the term, which is why it isn't very obvious... https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441?s=20 https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441?s=20 I always thought it meant "master copy"...
• ng12 6y ago
  There's a lot of people involved saying otherwise: https://public-inbox.org/git/20200504174548.r3zaftqcq52yhd2u@chatter.i7.local/ https://public-inbox.org/git/20200504174548.r3zaftqcq52yhd2u...
• maushu 6y ago
  I'm going to need a source for that. I can't find any reference to slave in Bitkeeper documentation.