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Re:Set the default branch for newly-created repositories by derivagral on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:35AM (#24290143)
I've been in software since I was a teen, and this comment finally made me realize what "trunk" was actually supposed to mean before Git took over.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

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Re:Set the default branch for newly-created repositories by skocznymroczny on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:21AM (#24292077)
As a non-native English speaker I never connected SVN's trunk with the concept of a tree from which branches grow. I mean, I knew of this meaning of the word trunk but I never thought of it in this context. I was more familiar with the other meanings, the long body part on the elephant and the storage compartment on a car.
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Re:Set the default branch for newly-created repositories by kjeetgill on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:54AM (#24293705)
For some reason I'd associated it with trunk, a word for the human torso.
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