What is the point to namespaces in branches in git?

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Published on 2012-10-18T07:13:57Z Indexed on 2012/10/18 11:14 UTC
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So I mainly use Mercurial for my projects and I decided to sit down and learn all Git's shenanigans to discover if I'm in the right side (at least for me).

I'm learning that git uses namespaces for branches and I would like to know (in your experience) what is the point of namespaces?. In Mercurial I could just set the convention of naming branches like so:

<branch name> //for "origin" branches
<username>/<branch name> //for user branches

I imagine that there is more to it than just the name (aside from avoiding naming conflicts), but what do I get out of this seemingly more complicated (not necessarily bad) model?

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