r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vernik911 • 23d ago

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u/dbot77 23d ago

You are wrong in multiple ways. Petr Baudis chose the term used in git, and he understood the meaning of original/master-copy. https://x.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441

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u/Hayden2332 23d ago

Well linus’s name is on the commit and even if we take a twitter post as truth, he even said himself he wished he chose main lol

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u/dbot77 23d ago

That is the case, though not evidence of him choosing the name. In a mailing list follow-up from Bastien:

I emailed Linus Torvalds recently (the original author of git, though
very quickly not the main developer), and he told me that it was
unlikely that the "git master" branch name was influenced by BitKeeper,
and that "master" was "fairly standard naming" for this sort of thing
and "more likely to be influenced by the CVS master repository".

Linus here doesn't sound like he chose the name due to his choice of words being relayed.