Re: What are branches?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 19, 2009, 22:29 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904200028340.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <4ac8254d0904191510v72ab2f92t6839c8354d0c6fe4@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Tuncer Ayaz wrote:

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> 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?

Thanks, Dscho