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master vs main (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

There's a lot of really well-fitting words to accurately describe the relations. Master/Slave is honestly not one of them.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

My thoughts exactly. The only positive to the deprecated name might have been its memorability, but that’s hardly worth using slave/master