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So would it be correct to say that 'heads' are the LEAVES of the commits-tree? Or are there such leaves which are not considered 'heads'?

• Lornedon 3y ago
  No. There are leaves that aren't heads (for example, after you delete a branch, the old commits just lie around until someone deliberately cleans them up), and there are heads that arent' leaves (for example if you branch a new feature branch from main. The feature branch brances off of main, so main is not a leaf anymore)
  • galaxyLogic 3y ago
    > The feature branch brances off of main, so main is not a leaf anymore) But "main" remains a "head" even though the feature branch "continues the graph" from it? So there must be a difference between "Adding a new commit" and "Branching a new commit". I think I got it now. Thanks
    • dasil003 3y ago
      There’s no “branching a new commit” (except as syntactic sugar). Creating a branch creates a new head pointing to an arbitrary commit (even one that already has one or more heads). Committing creates a new commit and moves exactly one head forward to it.