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		zaphar on Nov 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Git Branches: Intuition and Reality There absolutely can be. Merge commits have multiple parent commits for example. It's definitely a graph not just a tree.

dayjaby on Nov 23, 2023 [–]

Parent comment was about disregarding merge commits.

zaphar on Nov 24, 2023 | [–]

You can't disregard merge commits. It's part of the structure.

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