> It is an incredible failure of modern version control systems that distributed branching means that they're impossible for novices to use.
no, people are usually lazy about being extra precise about tracking transaction state of any sort (in conversation, finance, rational discussion, etc), and moving this imprecision from a linear sequence into a tree and from there into a forest only compounds things.
most of the problem with (d)VCS is that people are used to fuzzy transactional thinking, and furthermore, need to learn a new vocabulary to interact with it.
no, people are usually lazy about being extra precise about tracking transaction state of any sort (in conversation, finance, rational discussion, etc), and moving this imprecision from a linear sequence into a tree and from there into a forest only compounds things.
most of the problem with (d)VCS is that people are used to fuzzy transactional thinking, and furthermore, need to learn a new vocabulary to interact with it.