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Re: What are branches?

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TATuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 19, 2009, 22:10 UTC
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On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> 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.

Probably in the same confusion department: http://blog.teksol.info/2009/04/15/beware-of-gits-content-tracking.html

Is he right and is this the defined correct behavior?
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  1. Johannes SchindelinApr 19, 2009
  2. Michael WittenApr 19, 2009
  3. Tuncer AyazApr 19, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinApr 19, 2009
  5. Tuncer AyazApr 19, 2009
  6. Dmitry PotapovApr 20, 2009
  7. Michael J GruberApr 20, 2009
  8. Dmitry PotapovApr 20, 2009
  9. Michael J GruberApr 20, 2009
  10. Dmitry PotapovApr 20, 2009
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 20, 2009
  12. Marius VollmerApr 20, 2009
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 21, 2009
  14. Dmitry PotapovApr 21, 2009
  15. Johannes SchindelinApr 20, 2009
  16. Björn SteinbrinkApr 20, 2009
  17. Jakub NarebskiApr 20, 2009
  18. Björn SteinbrinkApr 20, 2009
  19. Jakub NarebskiApr 24, 2009
  20. Björn SteinbrinkApr 24, 2009
  21. Dmitry PotapovApr 20, 2009
  22. Johannes SchindelinApr 20, 2009
  23. Michał KiedrowiczApr 20, 2009
  24. Dmitry PotapovApr 20, 2009
  25. Björn SteinbrinkApr 20, 2009
  26. Brian GernhardtApr 20, 2009
  27. Felipe ContrerasApr 25, 2009
  28. Michael J GruberApr 20, 2009

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