What are branches?

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