The biggest problem I have with branches in git is that there does not seem to be a simple way to delete a branch in a version controlled way.
For me, the whole point of version control is to be able to go back and look at what I did earlier. The idea of doing destructive deletes of branches is madness. However, if you don't, you end up in the situation I have now, where my project has over a hundred branches, most of them minor changes or attempts at things that didn't pan out.
The overhead this causes (including, just scrolling through the list of branches) now makes me less eager to branch in new projects I work on. In svn, I would just do 'svn rm branches/stupid-idea' and it would be gone, but still exist in the history if I ever wanted it.
For me, the whole point of version control is to be able to go back and look at what I did earlier. The idea of doing destructive deletes of branches is madness. However, if you don't, you end up in the situation I have now, where my project has over a hundred branches, most of them minor changes or attempts at things that didn't pan out.
The overhead this causes (including, just scrolling through the list of branches) now makes me less eager to branch in new projects I work on. In svn, I would just do 'svn rm branches/stupid-idea' and it would be gone, but still exist in the history if I ever wanted it.