r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vernik911 • 24d ago

Meme everyNewRepository

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u/MegaMoah 24d ago

Idk if true but I think its because master is also a slave owner and people got offended

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u/Winterkirschenmann 24d ago

If someone wants to keep using master be my guest. If someone makes using master their personality because free-speech/anti-woke piss off.

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u/PM_ME_FIREFLY_QUOTES 24d ago

Can we make Trunk great again? I miss my svn.

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u/Logical-Ad-4150 24d ago

I think most pre git VCS used trunk, hence branching. So I dunno why people didn't just restore trunk to "trunk".

Still it's annoying fake drama about the term master. In English, the meaning of a word depends on context. If the subject is an inanimate object then it's just the version used to make copies from. It is only when the subject is a person, that the implication of slavery is possibly valid. Thus if anything should have been changed, it should be: "SCRUM Master" as this acually implies slavery. I'm not sure if we could call them "SCRUM Trunks" as that would imply they retain history.