[lxe]

Why not 'trunk'? It's a tree after all... there are 'branches'... SVN got it right.

[gkoberger]

Aside from the fact that `main` is pretty straightforward for people new to git, one huge benefit is that autocorrect for `ma` still works.

[derivagral]

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/

[skocznymroczny]

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.

[kjeetgill]

For some reason I'd associated it with trunk, a word for the human torso.

[wfriesen]

My guess is because "Main" was used in Microsoft's TFS.

[benatkin]

It's just like some politicians - destroying anything the predecessor created, no matter how good it is.