Other people did not get the education you got. Thus, this being a problem with education. People say things like "a branch does this" when they mean "We have

Other people did not get the education you got. Thus, this being a problem with education. People say things like "a branch does this" when they mean "We have rules on the git server that enforce this", or when they mean "We have a convention to do this, you have to keep track of it". One word to describe this is synecdoche - a part represents the whole or vice versa. Some part of the system does something, or some part of the PROCESS does something, and so people say "git does this thing". Imprecise speech is shorter, but it can waste a great deal of time in the long run.