On Wednesday 11 July 2007 17:03:26 Thiago Macieira wrote:
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> Anyways, we don't care about private branches.

Private branches are not for the sake of privacy, but to allow the history to 
be modified to allow them merging cleanly even if the trunk is modified in 
the meanwhile (see git-rebase and friends).
Another advantage is that the branch namespace in the central server is less 
cluttered.

Paolo Capriotti