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Subject: Re: What are branches?
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On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:17, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> if you're like me, you used Git for _way_ too long to really understand
> how anybody can say that Git is hard to learn.

I think that the human brain struggles with indirection. Consider that
so many programmers have a hard time understanding pointers; no wonder
so many people find git's underlying concepts boggling.

Michael WItten