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hinkley on March 17, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub, fuck your name change

Did Linus ever explain why he chose master in the first place? Is that a Bitkeeper thing?

Master and branches made no goddamned sense at all. It’s trunk, doofus. Trunk and branches. Like a tree?

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