On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 22:13 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > For a while I'd thought that it was relatively harmless in comparison > to > full-blown uses of master/slave metaphors, but I saw some analysis of > the history recently that pointed out that git got it from BitKeeper > which did in fact use a master/slave metaphor [1].
> [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/msg00066.html You might be interested in [2] as well. Speculation is often wrong. [2]: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2020-June/msg00023.html Ansgar
