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> arguably the more accurate analogy would be to call them "leaves" I don't think so. Branches are the more accurate analogy because two branches can have many

• Shish2k 3y ago
  > so branches grow as tree branches do, not leaves That’s exactly the mistake though - branches (the implementation detail) don’t grow. Branches - under the hood - are “one pointer to one commit”, and they are always the same size. The suggestion to call the implementation “leaves” is because you get a pointer to one commit at the end of the branch, and you can then follow that branch backwards (via the linked-list of parent-commits) until you reach the trunk. But the “branch” is never actually stored anywhere, it is only implied by its ends.
  • brabel 3y ago
    That makes no sense. Different branches always have a common parent commit which is the "branching point". When you update the branch to point to a new commit, your branch is growing apart from the other. The branch analogy makes much more sense.