Hi Michael, Michael Witten wrote: > As an aside, the problem here is likely a manifestation of the fact > that nobody understands what a branch is I agree with Michael J Gruber that this is not the useful kind of hyperbole. In olden times, there was more talk of the refs in the refs/heads/ hierarchy as being branch heads which point to the tip of a particular branch of history. That is still exactly what they are. By abuse of language, people sometimes use the term "branch" as a synonym when there is little risk of confusion. If you have found tutorial documentation that is confusing on this point, by all means, fix it. You are talking as though a documentation bug is a fundamental design flaw that cannot be fixed by the likes of you and me. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html