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master vs main (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 3 weeks ago

I feel master as in "master copy" is sort of problematic too. Git has no concept of "master" as a "master copy". All the clones and forks are the same fidelity as the original. It's a hold over from source control which did have an authoritative repo like SVN/CVS.