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Interesting, couldn't have guessed Hmm there's also something about he who picked the name (which wasn't Linus apparently) meant "master" as in e.g. "master r
by leaflets2 4y ago
Interesting, couldn't have guessed
Hmm there's also something about he who picked the name (which wasn't Linus apparently) meant "master" as in e.g. "master recording", see the Twitter tweets in the comments to that answer. And that he doesn't remember if maybe he was influenced by BitKeeper, was 15 years ago
- npteljes 4y agoSince there's no "slave" in git (the master is not special, simply the default branch when creating a repo), and there's the already established terminology of "master copy" or "master recording", it makes sense to not associate git's terminology usage with slavery. I originally posted the BitKeeper story because I had no idea either.
- leaflets2 4y agoOk then I understand better what you were saying :-)