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by embedding-shape 160 days ago
I expanded on it more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46601600

TDLR is: people feel safer when they can see that their original work is safe, while just making a new branch and playing around there is safe in 99% of the cases, people are more willing to experiment when you isolate what they want to keep.