3 ms·
> A branch is nothing more than a pointer (or mark) to a commit. Yep; the way I like to phrase it is "symlink". As in, .git/refs/heads literally contained syml
by mook 4y ago
> A branch is nothing more than a pointer (or mark) to a commit.
Yep; the way I like to phrase it is "symlink". As in, .git/refs/heads literally contained symlinks in it pointing to commits. (It doesn't anymore because Windows.)