> I'm still confused. en/merge-ort-3 and en/merge-ort-recursive do not > share any commits. The only tie is that each "uses en/merge-ort-2", > as you noted, but that was already noted separately. Am I missing > something? Yes, en/merge-ort-2 is not yet merged to 'master' and these two share the commits on them. Due to lack of better phrase that is labeled as "tangled".