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"trunk" would have at least matched the notion of "branches"

• ogogmad 11mo ago
  What about "boot", to be more international?
  • onion2k 11mo ago
    trunk as in tree, not car. Cars don't have branches.
  • theshrike79 11mo ago
    To go with the way the world is going, maybe "boot" and "licks" instead of "trunk" and "branches"? =)
• mirekrusin 11mo ago
  oh, don't worry, somebody will be offended by this as well - "trunk" as a sexual slang term refers to a woman's buttocks.
• matheusmoreira 11mo ago
  Huh. I always visualized "trunk" as some kind of chest where all the code was stored. Somehow it never occurred to me to think about trees. What a weird feeling.
  • gjvc 11mo ago
    i hope you don't get your source code tree (on disk) confused with the tree of branches in the repository then...
  • porridgeraisin 11mo ago
    Interesting perspective
  • webdevver 11mo ago
    i knew it wasn't just me!
• deleted 11mo ago
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• stephen_g 11mo ago
  Following the logic of the master rename though, should we even then use the terms “tree” or “branch”, since so many people were murdered by being hanged from them in lynchings?
• bni 11mo ago
  Since Torvalds hated CVS and Subversion with a passion, "trunk" was out of the question I guess.
  • gjvc 11mo ago
    extreme terminology prejudice