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		reinhardt on April 8, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Git koans Not as weird as hijacking the term "branch" to mean a symlink to a ref that is not part of the history. Then again why make it easier by naming it to something more intuitive, like say, "bookmark".

qznc on April 10, 2013 [–]

Because a bookmark is usually immutable. If I bookmark "http://news.ycombinator.com has "Hacker News" it will be same URL forever.

In contrast, git branches symlink to a different ref, whenever you commit to it.

A git tag could be called bookmark intuitively.

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