"I think it's because they author doesn't understand git and doesn't know what they are doing."

Thanks for your kind comment...

I would like to point out that this article is over 4 years old (hence my knowledge will have increased since then) and it was also basically my notes on our training with Scott Chacon of GitHub. I'm sure you wouldn't consider him to not "know what [he is] doing". Maybe it reflected best practices at the time the training was delivered and the article was written.

Anyway, I appreciate it's resurgence in popularity...