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If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
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I look at “master” in our repo like you would refer to a master recording or a remaster, or similarly the gold master for when you could say a video game has gone gold.
That's why they used master. And this makes the whole "master is a bad word" stupid, at least in Git context.
I don't know what a master recording is. Googled it and it seems to be related to vinyl or something. So yeah, kind of hard for me to wrap my head around that, but definitely an interesting outlook.
the master is the recording, all other recordings stem from