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		whimsicalism on July 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate sp... You're wrong - etymology is via bitkeeper which has slave repositories and master repos.

bonzini on July 22, 2021 [–]

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2020-June... for a description of what happened; tldr it isn't.

whimsicalism on July 22, 2021 | [–]

That link doesn't say anything contrary to what I said, and indeed includes a link to a twitter thread saying that Bitkeeper may very well be the origin of the 'master' terminology in git.

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