• @[email protected]
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    6 months ago

    Well, to reference Julia Evans another time:

    head and HEAD are specifically the third meaning of ‘branch’, i.e. the newest commit on a branch, but can also refer to a commit not on a branch, when in that detached head state.

    And while I’m not enamored with these names either, I can’t think of a word that I like better for this meaning.

    • Jakub Narębski
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      @Knusper @mac The ‘head’ is sometimes called ‘tip of the branch’ if you want to invoke the meaning of branch as a pointer to the graph of revisions, as a tip where new commits are created.

  • @aport
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    56 months ago

    Julia Evans has an abundance of helpful info guides like this

  • λλλ
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    36 months ago

    I was expecting some sort of joke. Sneaky…