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		_never_k on June 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub is working on renaming default branch from ... Github inherited it from git, which inherited it from bitkeeper, the DVCS that Linux originally used and the one that inspired git. Bitkeeper used a master/slave architecture that git dropped. https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H...

waheoo on June 17, 2020 | [–]

The dev that set git to using master says otherwise..

https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441

bonzini on June 14, 2020 | [–]

Repositories, not branches. It's just hearsay that the name of the master branch is based on bitkeeper.

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