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[Julia Evans] HEAD and heads (programming.dev)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

@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.