svn commit: r362420 - head/share/misc

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Jun 20 12:20:36 UTC 2020


On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:13 AM Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
wrote:

> > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 04:07:44AM +0000, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > New Revision: 362420
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/362420
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >   Correct 1BSD release date.
> > >
> > >   The Quarter Century of Unix book said that 1BSD was released March
> 1979.
> > >   However, the 1BSD tape image that's on Kirk's historical unix
> collection
> > >   has an earlier date.
> > >
> > >   It was common practice, at the time, to create a new copy of the tape
> > >   from the master system
> >              ^^^^^^
> > Ouch! :-)
>
> Given that this occured AFTER imp made a commit removing master/slave
> language I find it very ironic.
>
> Uh oh, we need to rewire our VCS system so we can correct our
> political incorrectness in our logs.
>

Master copy has a completely different etymology than master slave.

The only irony here is that you are over-reacting to this.

Warner


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