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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: What are branches?
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:17:52 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904191709220.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de> (raw)

Hi,

if you're like me, you used Git for _way_ too long to really understand 
how anybody can say that Git is hard to learn.  The concepts underlying 
Git have sunk so deep that I do not question them anymore.

But it is important to keep in mind that our concept of branches is not 
intuitive:

http://longair.net/blog/2009/04/16/git-fetch-and-merge/

In particular, we have some pretty confusing nomenclature when it comes to 
branches, and we might want to think how to improve the situation.

Food for thought on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Ciao,
Dscho

             reply	other threads:[~2009-04-19 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-19 15:17 Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2009-04-19 15:24 ` What are branches? Michael Witten
2009-04-19 22:10 ` Tuncer Ayaz
2009-04-19 22:29   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-19 22:34     ` Tuncer Ayaz
2009-04-20 11:32 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-04-20 12:07   ` Michael J Gruber
2009-04-20 13:24     ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-04-20 13:52       ` Michael J Gruber
     [not found]         ` <200904201614.07735.fge@one2team.com>
2009-04-20 14:27           ` Michael J Gruber
2009-04-20 18:40         ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-04-20 20:58           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-20 22:08             ` Marius Vollmer
2009-04-21  0:53               ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-21 11:41             ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-04-20 14:25       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-20 16:06         ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-04-20 18:59           ` Jakub Narebski
2009-04-20 20:23             ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-04-24 13:08               ` Jakub Narebski
2009-04-24 16:29                 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-04-20 18:47         ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-04-20 19:19           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-20 19:24             ` Michał Kiedrowicz
2009-04-20 20:16             ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-04-20 21:04           ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-04-20 16:13       ` Brian Gernhardt
2009-04-25 11:11 ` Felipe Contreras

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