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The idea of "merging into" has no meaning with git. You're merging two things into one. But saying that there are a master thing and a slave thing has no meanings.

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git does privilege the first parent[1] in a merge in a bunch of contexts

[1] i.e. the branch you did the merge from

Not true because commit parents are ordered. One of them is first - the main parent.

It's a detail. But for some people it looks like it changes everything.

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