Re: What are branches?

From: Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 19, 2009, 22:34 UTC
Message-ID: <4ac8254d0904191534q3abc4bdq7aebb0559803739@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904200028340.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Tuncer Ayaz wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Johannes Schindelin
>> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> > 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?
>
> Could you please at least change the subject to something like "Something
> else, was Re: ..." when you abduct the thread?

sorry, will repost. I have to admit that I was 25% unsure whether this is related and the right/wrong context. oh and that number is exact :).