Because not all uses of "master" have negative connotations. I can support renaming master-slave, but git is not such case. Turns out that Git’s use of master

Because not all uses of "master" have negative connotations. I can support renaming master-slave, but git is not such case. Turns out that Git’s use of master decends from a use that is about master/slave: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/msg00066.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...