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tsm on Sept 20, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Git Blame-Someone-Else

It's simpler than that: a branch is just a pointer to one specific commit (with a specific SHA)

emmelaich on Sept 21, 2019 [–]

True, but it's both.

Just as a link in a linked list is often the list and the node in the list.

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