master in "master/slave" (distributed computing) and master in the sense of a "master record" (version control) are two independent senses of the same word (senses 2.d and 10.b in the OED, respectively)
cf. https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/114751 <https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/114751> I believe the issue is with the former and not the latter > On 9 Jun 2020, at 18:31, Trevor Grant <trevor.d.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I decided to break this thread off from blacklist/whitelist, but someone > brought this up on the Streams slack channel as we were discussing that.... > > In removing "master/slave" terminology from tech... is anyone doing > anything with the 'master' branches which exist in just about every repo...?
