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by robbiemitchell 5104 days ago
Something that often gets glossed over in explaining version control to a non-developer is, "WTF is happening with my files?"

The concept of a single folder containing multiple versions of your stuff is a big deal; the fact that you can't simply navigate to a branch as if it's a different folder--that you can't "see" all your files at once--is a non-trivial thing to punch through.