Branching in a sentence as a noun

Well, the code appears to be branching to special cases based on the width of some integer.

So, if he were explicit, he should say 'Don't use git until you know how branching works at some level.

There's no reason to branch prematurely because there's nothing to stop you from branching any time.

Huge kudos to Mozilla for branching out and trying something different.

Branching in a sentence as an adjective

This is much faster, and for Linus, who wants to encourage lots of branching and merging, merge speed is highly important.

No. Those are content-consumption devices, occasionally branching out into cutesy creation.

Well, Twitter's bread and butter is in 140 characters, if they wanted to look at branching out into micro-blogging they wouldn't need to acquire a company, of whom the majority of their customers already use Twitter.

It works perfectly well in practice to imagine rebasing as the developer having implemented their topic branch instantaneously based on the current state, and resolving conflicts on a commit-by-commit basis rather than accumulating them into one opaque merge commit.> It's so tempting to stay on master, to think "It's just a quick fix, it's not worth branching for!

Branching definitions

noun

the act of branching out or dividing into branches

See also: ramification fork forking

adjective

having branches

See also: branched ramose ramous ramate

adjective

resembling the branches of a tree