On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 09:57:42AM +0200, demerphq wrote: > > Of course I missed the other point --- hostnames like master.<domain> > > (e.g., a hypothetical master.kernel.org), refering to the source of > > truth for something that then gets replicated. > > > > I don't think we're likely to see hostnames like main.kernel.org > > because it's just *so generic* as a word. > > Yep, you summarized my point well. I would say master.kernel.org is a > correct use of the term "master copy", and the use in the branch name > is simply not. My "master branch" for git.git is NOT *the* master. This is actually an important philosophical point with software like git. There is no such thing as master.kernel.org for the very specific reason that we position kernel.org to be merely a convenient place where to get a *copy* of Linux. The "master copy" of the mainline tree exists only in once place -- on Linus's computer. -K
