> confusion over the word 'tracking' OMG. This was one of my stumbling blocks in learning git. None of the explanations were helpful to me. The other area tha

> confusion over the word 'tracking' OMG. This was one of my stumbling blocks in learning git. None of the explanations were helpful to me. The other area that is a tremendous source of confusion is rebasing being described as "re-writing" history. There is no re-writing of anything in git during a re-base. There is some moving of labels (branches), which you might call "re-labeling" but all the commits that were there before a rebase are still there after in the git repository as well as a bunch of new commits.