Reply to post: Re: radial engine

GitLab latest to ditch 'master' as default initial branch name: It's now simply called 'main'

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Re: radial engine

Thank you, but you somewhat reinforced my point: master / slave was previously the purview of hardware, with software classically being "main", "branch", "subroutine", etc.; whilst I was still programming, "master / slave" was never used in a software context.

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