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A branch is just a series of commits; if any one of the commits has a different hash (as this hack will do) then the commit and all following commits will have

A branch is just a series of commits; if any one of the commits has a different hash (as this hack will do) then the commit and all following commits will have a different hash. Including the id of the branch (the HEAD).

tsm 7y ago
It's simpler than that: a branch is just a pointer to one specific commit (with a specific SHA)
- emmelaich 7y ago
  True, but it's both. Just as a link in a linked list is often the list and the node in the list.