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Sure, but lots of people using git don't really understand that commits are immutable or that the commit tree is an append-only data structure. The pervasive us
by gwright 10y ago
Sure, but lots of people using git don't really understand that commits are immutable or that the commit tree is an append-only data structure. The pervasive use of the phrase 'rewrite history' hinders this understanding.
- eridius 10y agoI disagree. I've used Git for a long time, and talked to a lot of Git users, and I've never seen anyone say something that implied they thought they were literally modifying the commit objects, as opposed to rewriting the history of a branch.