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Date:      Sat, 20 Jun 2020 06:20:22 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>,  src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r362420 - head/share/misc
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfovKWnq69e9XTtPkz_kQzGmTh_9S-5Y_0cH%2B8bvf0oLwQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <202006201113.05KBDTJt099483@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <20200620044421.GA97516@FreeBSD.org> <202006201113.05KBDTJt099483@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:13 AM Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@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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