> Historically, masters enslaved people, didn't consider them human and didn't allow them to express free will, so this term should generally be avoided.
I assume Stanford now hands out an Adept Degree at the end of grad school.
The master one still makes me mad when the git project was being silly about it. From its page on Etymonline, the noun comes from Latin ‘magister’ (n.) "chief, head, director, teacher", with “master’s degree” (which originally qualified somebody to be able to teach) being attested back to the 14th century. As an adjective it was used as far back as the 12th century, coming into words like “master key”, “master craftsman”, “master recording” etc. and “master branch” makes complete sense in this context, especially when git doesn’t have anything named with anything like ‘slave’ branch or anything similar.
Being familiar with the various meanings of the word, it completely baffled me that anybody would ever try to link “master branch” to slavery. It makes absolutely no sense…
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> Historically, masters enslaved people, didn't consider them human and didn't allow them to express free will, so this term should generally be avoided.
I assume Stanford now hands out an Adept Degree at the end of grad school.