Historically, Git and other software use terms such as master/slave,
whitelist/blacklist, which are based on racial concepts. Their continued use
maintains the racial stereotypes they depict. Better alternatives in meaning and
technical correctness exist, like leader/follower, blocklist/allowlist.
In the Nordic mythology, a saga is a long, continuous recollection of stories
about the history of humans, legends, and Gods. The term saga reflects very
well what happens in a Git repository. Changes happen in branches (some teams
tie them to User Stories, which are sometimes directly or loosely coupled to
the main branch). Once the changes are finalized, they get added to the main
branch, or get appended in the case of a rebase. The mental model of a big book
of stories fits this process very well.
Therefore, the main branch in this project is named saga. master must not be
used.