March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
516 pages
15h 11m
English
The less surprising, the better.
People expect branches and find forks to be uncommon and thus confusing. This is the one aspect where branches win. If you use branches, a single patch will have the same commit hash tag, whereas across forks the patch will have different hash tags. That makes it harder to track patches as they cross forks, true. But seriously, having to track hexadecimal hash tags is not a feature. It’s a bug. Sometimes better ways of working are just surprising at first.
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