GitHub to replace «master» with alternative term to avoid slavery references

But, in reality, these efforts started years ago, in 2014, when the Drupal project first moved in to replace «master/slave» terminology with «primary/replica.»

Drupal’s move was followed by the Python programming language, Chromium (the open-source browser project at the base of Chrome), Microsoft’s Roslyn .NET compiler, and the PostgreSQL and Redis database systems.