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by frew 2192 days ago
Except it is: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...
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That is hearsay at best, an intentional strawman at worst. The fact that bitkeeper uses master and slave repositories has no relationship on the meaning of master for git branches.

Git uses origin and clone for repositories.

I'll just share this with you directly since I don't know how to link to another comment: https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1271477451756056577...