Re:Beej's Guide to Git
by imcritic on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @09:27AM
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Git is wrong in some regards: they introduce an entity "branch", but it is not stored properly, it's like virtual data.
The proof that there are really no branches in git's storage is a simple task that's not achievable in git:
suppose you had some branch, but you don't remember it's name, then you branched off and issued some commits. Now there's no way to get a git history consisting of just the commits introduced since you branched off.
The proof that there are really no branches in git's storage is a simple task that's not achievable in git:
suppose you had some branch, but you don't remember it's name, then you branched off and issued some commits. Now there's no way to get a git history consisting of just the commits introduced since you branched off.