From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:17:52 GMT
Subject: What are branches?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904191709220.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

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