In the last chapter, we looked at a linear history. This can be fine for trivial repositories, but if we are confident working with branches, it will introduce almost no overhead, so we can wield the power of branches, even for our simplest projects.
There are many benefits from working actively with branches in Git. We will cover collaboration with multiple developers in the next chapter, but even for a solo developer, there are wins from branches. They primarily derive from the fact that we can use branches to isolate our work. When we isolate our work, we can mitigate some of the cost of multitasking. ...
