No real branches in Git

Posted Nov 18, 2013 13:46 UTC (Mon) by rvfh (guest, #31018)
In reply to: Necessity mother of invention by ms
Parent article: Four years of Go

> The fact that a branch is just a pointer to one revision rather than an arbitrary set of revisions is a major pain point.

Yes, it makes more sense to talk about 'heads' than 'branches'. A branch to me implies a clear starting point. And no, I don't think 'git merge-base' is the answer :-)