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Re:Git Branches: Intuition and Reality by zaphar on Thursday November 23, 2023 @04:48PM (#38397939)
There absolutely can be. Merge commits have multiple parent commits for example. It's definitely a graph not just a tree.
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Re:Git Branches: Intuition and Reality by dayjaby on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:41PM (#38398479)
Parent comment was about disregarding merge commits.
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Re:Git Branches: Intuition and Reality by zaphar on Thursday November 23, 2023 @07:21PM (#38399381)
You can't disregard merge commits. It's part of the structure.
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