Re: DEP-14: renaming master to main?
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 01:10:31AM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 22:13 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > For a while I'd thought that it was relatively harmless in comparison
> > to
> > full-blown uses of master/slave metaphors, but I saw some analysis of
> > the history recently that pointed out that git got it from BitKeeper
> > which did in fact use a master/slave metaphor [1].
>
> > [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/msg00066.html
>
> You might be interested in [2] as well. Speculation is often wrong.
>
> [2]: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2020-June/msg00023.html
Good to know, but I think it doesn't really change my conclusions.
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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@debian.org]
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