>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> writes: Andreas> Whatever, really. The fact that pretty much everyone seems to know Andreas> what a branch is and how it works in git after a (very) brief intro Andreas> to it means it's either right on target or that people are so used to Andreas> the fact that branch means something different in every scm that they Andreas> don't even bother loading the word with some preconceived notion that Andreas> used to be right in cvs. It does lead to confusion though, and once you *really* understand that a branch is a point, not a line, you can do a lot more cool things with git, and rebase and stash make a lot more sense. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion -- 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