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Re:Git Branches: Intuition and Reality by galaxyLogic on Friday November 24, 2023 @05:00PM (#38408849)
> The feature branch brances off of main, so main is not a leaf anymore)

But "main" remains a "head" even though the feature branch "continues the graph" from it?

So there must be a difference between "Adding a new commit" and "Branching a new commit". I think I got it now. Thanks

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Re:Git Branches: Intuition and Reality by dasil003 on Saturday November 25, 2023 @08:58AM (#38413540)
There’s no “branching a new commit” (except as syntactic sugar). Creating a branch creates a new head pointing to an arbitrary commit (even one that already has one or more heads). Committing creates a new commit and moves exactly one head forward to it.
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