Eh? Branches and tags are just symbolic names for commits, and commits define the entire content of the filesystem for a codebase at that commit. That's almos

Eh? Branches and tags are just symbolic names for commits, and commits define the entire content of the filesystem for a codebase at that commit. That's almost all you need to know. Get that down path and you're on your way to being a Git power user. If you can't handle that, then maybe you can't handle programming either. The last thing we need is more opinionated version control tooling. We've tried it (e.g., Mercurial), and it has failed in the market. But if you want opinionated version control tooling, well, there it is for you to use.