Huh. I always visualized "trunk" as some kind of chest where all the code was stored. Somehow it never occurred to me to think about trees. What a weird feeling.

i hope you don't get your source code tree (on disk) confused with the tree of branches in the repository then...

i knew it wasn't just me!

Interesting perspective

Following the logic of the master rename though, should we even then use the terms “tree” or “branch”, since so many people were murdered by being hanged from them in lynchings?

Since Torvalds hated CVS and Subversion with a passion, "trunk" was out of the question I guess.

extreme terminology prejudice

oh, don't worry, somebody will be offended by this as well - "trunk" as a sexual slang term refers to a woman's buttocks.

What about "boot", to be more international?

trunk as in tree, not car. Cars don't have branches.

To go with the way the world is going, maybe "boot" and "licks" instead of "trunk" and "branches"? =)