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[John Ralls]

On May 18, 2013, at 8:39 PM, Yawar Amin <yawar.amin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Geert,
> 
> On 2013-05-17 14:23, Geert Janssens wrote:
>> [...]
>> Hopefully this will help some to understand git branches better and why they are totally 
>> different from svn branches (where each branch is a commit in itself, not a floating label to 
>> attach to some commit).
> 
> This was a great explanation. Have you looked at nvie's post ( http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ )? I think it makes a lot of sense for a project like GnuCash.
> 
> Slight nitpick: to my understanding in svn a branch is just a directory that contains a copy of all the project files.
> 

Sort of. It also contains all of the history and properties for those files.

Regards,
John Ralls