On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:40:47AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Not really. The master/slave metaphor prompted me to think about this > sort of thing more and give it a higher priority, that's all. I still > think we'd be better off using a different name.
So use a different metaphor. For git, we can use the medieval system of master/terminator (terminator = "apprentice" but the latter sounds human only). A terminator does what he's ordered to, but may graduate to journeyman then master, especially when moving to another workshop (repo). Upsides: * we keep the name, ingrained in millions of scripts/etc * clones get a more glorious name (but there's nothing that enforces it) Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ in the beginning was the boot and root floppies and they were good. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ -- <willmore> on #linux-sunxi ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀