Wtf are you talking about? It doesn't have a fucked up name origin at all. It was named "master" as in "master recording", like in music production. Proof: https://x.com/xpasky/status/1271477451756056577.

Master/slave concepts were never a thing in git. The whole renaming thing was really fucking stupid. Caused plenty of breakage of scripts and tools for absolutely no good reason whatsoever.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Alright. Doesn't change my main point. Which is the person's name for the master branch is fucking weird.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

It is weird. So what? It’s just a branch name in a software control system. That’s the point they’re trying to make.

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Where did the term master recording come from?