On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 01:10:31AM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > 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
Good to know, but I think it doesn't really change my conclusions. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]