Under the Hood

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A Branch is a Pointer

git branch testing

HEAD points to your current location

git checkout testing

git commit -a -m "some change"

"Versions" are implicit in the graph structure

git checkout master

git commit -a -m "other changes"

Branching, Merging, Conflicts

(on board)