[Aeolun]

> In this particular case, this is the first time anyone has commented on "refs" being difficult to understand in the 1.5 years that SourceHut has been around.

To be fair, when I tried sourcehut the first time around, I did go ‘wtf’ when I saw branches being called refs.

I didn’t end up using it though, so I’m probably not the target market.

I do like the reasoning behind the hub released now though, so maybe I’ll try again.

[vnorilo]

I use hg by choice and git when needed. The git interface feels confusing to me, but after learning the data model (enough to construct commits with the github data api) it suddenly seems a lot simpler, which I feel is a good reason to grok what "ref" actually means.

[Aeolun]

That is true, but I’m not sure if it’s a good reason to use ‘ref’ in daily conversation.