The reply to the original post was describing branching off at a historic place without merging back into trunk. You can't have a branch without a branch ;-)

The reply to the original post was describing branching off at a historic place without merging back into trunk. You can't have a branch without a branch ;-) I think the person replying did not understand that you can easily branch from a commit with a tag (and in fact a branch is really just a special kind of tag on a commit in git).