From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:24:31 GMT
Subject: Re: What are branches?
Message-ID: <b4087cc50904190824k4b02a34uf901428e20cb8c7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904191709220.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:17, 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.

I think that the human brain struggles with indirection. Consider that
so many programmers have a hard time understanding pointers; no wonder
so many people find git's underlying concepts boggling.

Michael WItten