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>(Master of Ceremonies, Master of Arts, etc.) Its the master/slave dynamic that is considered the issue...if there were Slaves of Ceremonies and Slaves of Arts

• tristan957 6y ago
  Where in Git do you find the word slave? Did you know slaves were never exclusively black people? All races have been enslaved at all points in history. As a white person whose family has probably been enslaved because slavery was such a popular practice, I am offended by your argument that I should take offense to this. Please stop offending me.
• samatman 6y ago
  Good point, I gotta stop calling my feature branches `slave` it's a bad habit! Real talk though, when this first blew up, I took the opportunity to change all my master branches to trunk, the oldest and best term for "that from which branches grow". "main" is lame, it reeks of compromise and giving the least amount of thought possible to the replacement. Worse, it shares the same first two letters with "master", and that means more time spent typing out the wrong branch name, muscle memory being what it is.
  • arp242 6y ago
    I think it doesn't really matter what the name is as long as it's a common word that's easy to memorize. Trunk, master, main, default, current, etc. are all the same to me. But "main" saves me two characters in my shell prompt so it's marginally better IMO. The entire thing is mostly just a bikeshed.