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

  • @[email protected]
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    2427 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      427 days ago

      That’s why they used master. And this makes the whole “master is a bad word” stupid, at least in Git context.

    • @febra
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      227 days ago

      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.

      • @orrk
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        1427 days ago

        the master is the recording, all other recordings stem from