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Re:Dolt is Git for data by Jestar342 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:52AM (#22736421)
AFAIK (from the rumour mill and not from any kind of reliable source) the `git branch` command was only added as a cargocult from all the SVN users flocking to git and asking "So how do I branch?!". Previous to this, everything was tags and checkouts.

Again, no verifiable source, just water cooler talk with other devs.

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Re:Dolt is Git for data by tosser678 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @09:23AM (#22737250)
from the first kernel merge (link found in wikipedia)

https://marc.info/?l=git&m=111377572329534

I don't know about 'git branch', but it looks like 'git merge' wasn't a thing

edit: from searching a bit, it appears that it had branches on June of the launch year, dunno if it had those on release.

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