Sorry, I have to filibuster myself here... On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Stephan Menzel <stephan.menzel@gmail.com> wrote:
You can also have multiple branches in one working copy. Git calls that concept "tracked branches". You can have as many branches in a (local) repository as you want and some of them, if not all, can be tracking branches, which means when they created, they point to a remote branch in the repo you've cloned from (aka 'origin') or indeed any other, and pull in changes from there.
The reason why I bring that up is because in all this discussion here, there'a a lot of comparing handling of branches in SVN and git and what is easier and whatnot. This is not really a sensible thing to do as the very concept of 'branches', despite equal naming, is in fact very different in git and svn. So different, that direct comparison does not make sense in my opinion, as above example shows. Cheers, Stephan