Dangers in Multiple Branch Parallel Development

Jonathan gives a great elaboration of "Dangers in Multiple Branch Parallel Development". I wonder if this can be well-addressed by Git version control.

http://jawspeak.com/2010/11/03/subversion-parallel-multi-branch-development-and-merging/

Remove lastUpdate files in local Maven repository

One may use the following shell command to remove lastUpdate files in local Maven repository

for f in $(find . -name *lastUpdate*); do rm -f $f; done