For anyone new to git, or puzzled by its fundamental structure, I recommend starting with this: https://medium.com/girl-writes-code/git-is-a-directed-acyclic-g

For anyone new to git, or puzzled by its fundamental structure, I recommend starting with this: https://medium.com/girl-writes-code/git-is-a-directed-acyclic-graph-and-what-the-heck-does-that-mean-b6c8dec65059 https://medium.com/girl-writes-code/git-is-a-directed-acycli... While reading the Medium post, it may be helpful to bear in mind that arcs shown in the drawings — called “pointers” in the text — are exactly hashes to git.