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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[-] febra@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm a developer. I use main/release/dev for new projects, because it just sounds better and is more intuitive to me honestly. "Master" doesn't make much sense. Like what's so "master" about a "master branch"? It's just the main branch everything gets merged into. It doesn't "control" branches. There's no "master/slave" relationship there. So again, "master" was never really intuitive to me.

Old projects don't get relabeled, they stay master, cause relabeling the main branch could cause potential problems. That's my two cents.

[-] Wizzard@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

That's where you should use something more like top / bottom /s

I think in this sense, master is more akin to the 'recording' master - The best version of the recording to which others are generated, and all parts merged; no 'slaves' necessarily just the 'master'.

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