• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • Zink@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      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!

      • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        Merged -> gone gold

        Deployed -> gone platinum

        Gone a week without crashing production -> triple platinum

    • vulpivia@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      That’s just not true. It originally came from Bitkeeper’s terminology, which had a master branch and slave branches.