How many people had to be explained what a master copy is? Do these same people need to be explained what a master degree is?
As for the ‘master and slave’ terminology, yeah it should go away, if anything because it was rarely even accurate. For example, the IDE interface refered the primary drive as master and the secondary as the slave. But the primary drive has absolutely no control of over the secondary. It just defines who gets the bus id of 0 and 1…
The change still annoys me at times as the default to git is still master. Its the hosted git (Github, Gitlab, etc) repos that default to main. And on occasion I get reminded this when I push a local initialized repo to them…
it happens enough that it became worth it to go with it. people new to any field will come into it with only the “common” understanding of words, and it’s such a small thing.
How many people had to be explained what a master copy is? Do these same people need to be explained what a master degree is?
As for the ‘master and slave’ terminology, yeah it should go away, if anything because it was rarely even accurate. For example, the IDE interface refered the primary drive as master and the secondary as the slave. But the primary drive has absolutely no control of over the secondary. It just defines who gets the bus id of 0 and 1…
At some point, if enough people are annoyed and the alternative is just as valid, the annoyance of getting used to the new term is worthwhile.
I was annoyed by the change like 5ish years ago, when the movement started, but now idc anymore.
The change still annoys me at times as the default to git is still master. Its the hosted git (Github, Gitlab, etc) repos that default to main. And on occasion I get reminded this when I push a local initialized repo to them…
That’s configurable since Git 2.28. You can change
init.defaultBranchto main or trunk or whatever you want.it happens enough that it became worth it to go with it. people new to any field will come into it with only the “common” understanding of words, and it’s such a small thing.