Which git branch are you on? Main or master
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[–] 86 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I get wanting to move away from "master," but why in the world didn't we use "trunk"

It was already a standard name, and it fits "branches," etc.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    "trunk" is what it was called in SVN, too. Well, kind of. SVN didn't have a real concept of branching like Git does, but the main development would almost always happen in a root directory called "trunk".

    I'm not sure why Bitkeeper used "master", but that's why Git called it that (Git was originally built as a replacement for Bitkeeper).

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