user guide help (definitions of terms)

[Ben Finney]

Inky 788 <inky788 at gmail.com> writes:

> Ok. I think that part of what was just confusing me is that "checkout"
> is not only a noun but also a verb here.

It was a verb before it was a noun; think of “checking out” a book from
a library, for example.

> I hope that the term "branch" doesn't also suffer from that malady. :)

It does. This is the English language; verbing nouns and nouning verbs
comes with the territory :-)

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