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Git does not have the "slave" term, only "master" term. But the "master" term is being removed because it is derived from master-slave connotation from Bitkeepe

Git does not have the "slave" term, only "master" term. But the "master" term is being removed because it is derived from master-slave connotation from Bitkeeper allegedly. https://discourse.gnome.org/t/renaming-master-branch-to-mainline/841/15 https://discourse.gnome.org/t/renaming-master-branch-to-main... Master-slaves have been replaced in many projects, such as Drupal (primary/replicas), Django (leader/followers), OpenSSH (parent/children). I wonder what would happen to robot term? Robot comes from Czech language, which is robota. It means forced labour. https://wordhistories.net/2017/06/14/origin-of-slave/ https://wordhistories.net/2017/06/14/origin-of-slave/

kingkongjaffa 6y ago
This is the one I don't understand. Changing blacklist/whitelist is fine, we can make this better. Changing master in instances where no pairing exists with the word slave doesn't make any sense to me.
- xellisx 6y ago
  The word doesn't make any sense in the context of something that is constantly changing. And Gitnis graph based and the is no real concept of a trunk, like in SVN. So we start calling the dog a dog, instead of a rock.