Discussion on: Goodbye Master, Hello...What?

[perpetual . education]

We never understood why it was called 'master' - or really why it's called "production" either. No solution yet... but - 'devel' doesn't seem that fun. We always prefer 'random' over 'rand.'

[Jason C. McDonald MousePaw Media]

Here's some of the history behind Git's use of master, from the guy who started using it.

Petr Baudis

@xpasky

@billygriffin22 @codervandal @natfriedman @Una @github I picked the names "master" (and "origin") in the early Git tooling back in 2005.

(this probably means you shouldn't give much weight to my name preferences :) )

I have wished many times I would have named them "main" (and "upstream") instead.

Glad it's happenning @natfriedman

16:20 PM - 12 Jun 2020

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But, yeah, I feel like edge is more fun, personally.