• Chris
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    There’s no “slave” convention in git so I’m not sure how it can be considered an issue (I get that drives being master and slave is a bit icky). But then, what is it a master of?

    As others have said, “trunk” would have been a more sensible replacement.

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      It’s a master the same way that an original recording (the final version before mass reproduction) is called a master; mixing and processing the raw media clips into such a recording is called mastering. It’s a convention that has existed long before computers were a thing.

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          On my app, tapping the image makes it full screen. I had to figure out how to get to the raw Markdown of the post and go from there.

          For those who come after: https://slrpnk.net/comment/16864626

          There’s an actual response to the issue at hand in that link; man didn’t just decide to drop a meme and peace out (though I probably would’ve assumed that was the case if it wasn’t for the edit)

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      But then, what is it a master of?

      It’s about master copy. You have a master copy, and you have the development copies that are a copy of the master which is where you make your changes.

      If i had to guess, the problem is that people don’t know how to use git and develop in the master