> an obviously weird action, like finding and checkout out a commit hash instead of a branch But this isn't an obviously weird action? It happens all the time

> an obviously weird action, like finding and checkout out a commit hash instead of a branch But this isn't an obviously weird action? It happens all the time when you need to branch off from a previous point. Maybe you're unexpectedly releasing a hotfix, maybe your current development is going in a bad direction, maybe you need to test something against a previous state.