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master vs main (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 21 hours ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Schal330@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

For me I pictured "master" as perfecting something. So when I asked someone as a noob why things were being switched from master to main I was surprised at the possibility that it could be related to master/slave, but completely understood why from that point.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if you could think of another word besides slave terminology that might mean that.

Like maybe the "perfect" version?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 13 hours ago

"It's not the master branch, it's the perfect branch. The superior branch!"