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A comment on GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid slavery references.

Re:GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid... by anjc on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:52AM (#23518615)
I don't understand the racist connotations given that there are no "slave" branches. Every similar mention of "master" can't change. What words can better describe a master boot record, for example?
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Re:GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid... by eplanit on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:55AM (#23518666)
I guess remastering audio recordings and movies is out now, too.
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Re:GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid... by jb0x168 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @02:49PM (#23520191)
Primary? Initial? Root? (ok maybe not the last one, though the internal rhyme is nice).
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