Gollum@feddit.org to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 year agoAnother smart movefeddit.orgimagemessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down11
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minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoYes exactly. It’s a reference to the recording industry’s practice of calling the final version of an album the “master” which gets sent for duplication.
minus-squarevulpivia@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoThat’s just not true. It originally came from Bitkeeper’s terminology, which had a master branch and slave branches.
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoNot according to pasky, the git contributor who picked the names.
minus-squareZink@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoIn alignment with this, we should not replace the master branch with the main branch, we should replace it with the gold branch. Every time a PR gets approval and it’s time to merge, I could declare that the code has “gone gold” and I am not doing that right now!
minus-squareramjambamalam@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoMerged -> gone gold Deployed -> gone platinum Gone a week without crashing production -> triple platinum
Yes exactly. It’s a reference to the recording industry’s practice of calling the final version of an album the “master” which gets sent for duplication.
That’s just not true. It originally came from Bitkeeper’s terminology, which had a master branch and slave branches.
Not according to pasky, the git contributor who picked the names.
In alignment with this, we should not replace the master branch with the main branch, we should replace it with the gold branch.
Every time a PR gets approval and it’s time to merge, I could declare that the code has “gone gold” and I am not doing that right now!
Merged -> gone gold
Deployed -> gone platinum
Gone a week without crashing production -> triple platinum