As Mountain Lion effectively commits all changes to the current branch automatically, the Git equivalent would be: git branch new-branch git reset -hard <s

As Mountain Lion effectively commits all changes to the current branch automatically, the Git equivalent would be: git branch new-branch git reset -hard <startpoint> which is effectively what people are having to do in Mountain Lion by hand. The difference is that Git users expect that and know how to do it, unlike your average new Mountain Lion user coming from OS X 10.6 or Windows.