On 10/03/2021 01.53, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:47 AM Damian Shaw > <damian.peter.s...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Does 'master' confuse people? >> >> There's a general movement to replace language from common programming >> practises that derive from, or are associated with, the dehumanization of >> people. Such as master and slave, as well as whitelist and blacklist. >> > > Is that *actually* the origin of the term in this context, or is it > the "master", the pristine, the original from which copies are made? > There's no "slave" branch anywhere in the git repository.
There is some historical evidence that the developers of git adopted the term from Bitkeeper. After all git was created when Bitkeeper changed its pricing model back in mid of 2000s. Bitkeeper uses master and slave terminology, https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/HOWTO.ask#L232 > We are then going to modify the file on both > the master and slave repository and then merge the work. For the sake > of simplicity, we are doing work in the master repository. Christian _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/VZEIRCSPYKMBR2UQFHH7XVZBKWZMTEYH/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
