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Excellent work! I've wanted an easy way to explain git branching to people and from now on I'll point them to this.

Same! Sometimes I would like to introduce my coworkers to the amazing world of git, but it's hard to convince them without showing them a concrete example, this one is a pretty nice overview, and also useful for advanced users! I just got a better, more intuitive understanding of what detached HEAD really means thanks to it!

Git is amazing, I just wish if there was a better conflict resolving approach in Git.

Do you really? I like the fact that git doesn't try anything clever when it hits a conflict and asks you to fix by hand. Have you found an automatic conflict resolution tool that you liked before?

resolving conflicts is not something machines can do. There needs to be a human to decide what is a correct outcome.

No problem, really glad you like it. I think one of the most important distinctions as well is the difference between rebasing and merging -- I show this off in the demo link:

http://pcottle.github.com/learnGitBranching/index.html?demo

I never understood why some repos only accept rebase commits until I actually looked up how the graph is wildly different depending on the command

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