On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 04:29:55PM -0700, Matt Davis wrote:
> > +git branch
> 
> I think @wking was getting at this before... I think `git branch` is
> not the best way to illustrate what has been accomplished
> here. Since we've pushed to GitHub I'd suggest going to the GitHub
> UI to show the new branch and how it differs from `master`.

Ugh.  I've always found the network UI [1] to be slow and awkward.
I'd prefer:

  $ git log --graph --oneline --decorate

and think that any sane description of branching should set something
like that up as an alias (so you can easily add --all, etc.).  On the
other hand, I'm not maintaining the novice Git material that this is
targetting, so take my preferences with a grain of salt ;).  Maybe
@gvwilson wants to weigh in on branch-feedback?

[1]: https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/network