From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:25:38 GMT
Subject: Re: What are branches?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904201621290.6771@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <20090420132414.GD25059@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

> When you create a new commit, it is always belong to _one_ branch and 
> never to two or more branches.

Certainly you forgot about detached HEADs?  And about the ability to 
create new branches which point to the _exact_ same commit as other 
branches?  And about the option to delete the original branch, not 
removing the commit, or the other branches, at all?

No, this all shows: we _have_ a different branch model from most other 
VCSes, and we _obviously_ make that not clear enough.

Meaning, we should point out that our branches are different, _and_ we 
should describe the light-weighted nature of them better in our 
documentation (especially the tutorials).

Ciao,
Dscho