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| Gnome Mailing List referencing BitKeeper, | |
| an early CVS using master/slave to describe functionality | |
| https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/msg00066.html | |
| Petr Baudis, git maintainer chose the name master as in master copy. | |
| https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1271477451756056577?s=21 | |
| Petr does not rule out being influenced by bitkeeper. | |
| https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272958618124595201?s=21 | |
| Linus Torvalds, git creator, early mailing list post describing | |
| functionality with master/slave concepts | |
| https://marc.info/?l=git&m=111968031816936&w=2 | |
| Brendan O'Leary, Gitlab, I was wrong | |
| https://boleary.dev/blog/2020-06-10-i-was-wrong-about-git-master.html |
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Alternative link for gnome mail archive which gives HTTP/502
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg30541.html