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by krona 1000 days ago
Except its a very common adjective, so any time you refer to it you have to say 'main branch' otherwise you've introduced unnecessary ambiguity. Whereas 'master' refers to one thing and one thing only in most contexts (unless you're selling bedrooms).
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>> Whereas 'master' refers to one thing and one thing only in most contexts.

What contexts? Should we also ban "master" key because it implies it enslaves the other keys?

I think krona is not arguing against using `master` as default branch name.