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Apparently git’s usage of “master” originates with bitkeeper, which did actually use the term in a master/slave context.
by skavi 6y ago
Apparently git’s usage of “master” originates with bitkeeper, which did actually use the term in a master/slave context.
- quantified 6y agoThe words mean what we understand them to mean. Like the Hacker in Hacker News. I doubt it was intended to mean “one who breaks into computers” even if the majority of people seem to have adopted that meaning. I’ve never thought of master in this context as anything other than like a recording master. It doesn’t give orders to anything or anybody, it just represents your best version of truth.