comments about git

[Tom Zeller]

>>Remind me again why plain old svn branching is seen as not a good
>>solution for these issues?

> But basically it's just the tools and the ease of switching a working copy
> to examine a branch. With git, it's a local operation instead of a remote
> one that has to pull the whole branch.

While I was trying to set up git on shibboleth.net, which I probably
should not have done, I watched the youtube of Linus Torvalds talking
about git at google. I think he said something like the cost of a
branch in git is 41k written to the local filesystem.

My thought was to branch before working on a jira issue, if branches
really are lightweight.