Re: Newbie grief

I've been reading the thread with interest.

People who know far more than I do about git, its innards, and its
design have been responding in this thread so consider this a git
*user*'s point of view:

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Rich Pixley [off-list ref] wrote:

Multiple heads are the idea that a single commit can "branch" in the
repository and that both commits can be HEADS of the same branch at once in
a single repository.  This allows a potential collision to exist in the
repository and to be pushed and pulled through multiple repositories.  It

That is bizarre; I have no other word for it.

I teach git (occasionally), and if this feature existed I would
totally ignore it in my teaching material because I wouldn't know how
to defend or explain the need for "hydra branches".

It's like having two people with the same first name *and* last name
(a situation that is not impossible in real life, but is rare and
almost always requires special handling).

Does Hg do this?  That would explain why my (admittedly half-hearted)
attempts to learn it have failed -- whatever tutorial I used must have
been written with the idea that hydra branches are intuitive and
logical and sane, but did not express the concept as clearly and
succinctly as you did.

Thanks for this insight; my next attempt to understand Hg, should I
ever be forced into it, might actually succeed!