[RFC] Bound branch terminology, master/slave?

[Aaron Bentley]

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David Allouche wrote:
> Summary: Do you agree to rename "bound branch" to "slave branch"?

I have always been uncomfortable with using the words "master" and
"slave", especially around black people.  Some organisations have gone
farther than I would, and systematically replaced those words with
soemthing else in IDE technical documentation.

> Damien Boucard (hackter in #bzr) our stalwart french wiki translator,
> recently translated the wiki documentation about bound branches.
> 
> He initially translated "bound branch" as "branche bornée", which is
> quite unfortunate. "Bornée" is indeed the correct translation for the
> mathematical term, as in "bound value", but it also common language for
> "dumb and obtuse", and does not convey the "rope-tied bondage" meaning
> at all.

So would "tied" branch work?  I think your "dependant" branch also
sounded possible.

Aaron
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