Оh nо, wоn’t sоmеоnе think аbоut thе insurаnсе соmраniеs?!
Git borrowed the term “master” from BitKeeper, the proprietary tool the Linux kernel used before Git existed.
In BitKeeper, a “master repository” referred to the authoritative repository in a set of distributed clones. When Linus Torvalds created Git in 2005, he followed that naming convention and called the primary branch “master”.