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OSTechNix<p>Important Git Terminology <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Git</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Opensource</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/VersionControlSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VersionControlSystem</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Cheatsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cheatsheet</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a></p>
OSTechNix<p>Git 2.47 Released: Incremental Multi-Pack Indexes, Base Branch Detection, and More <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Git</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/VersionControlSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VersionControlSystem</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Opensource</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/ReleaseNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReleaseNotes</span></a> <br><a href="https://ostechnix.com/git-2-47-released/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ostechnix.com/git-2-47-release</span><span class="invisible">d/</span></a></p>
Neustradamus :xmpp: :linux:<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Git</span></a> 2.46.0 RC1 has been released (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCM</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SourceControlManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SourceControlManagement</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SourceCodeManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SourceCodeManagement</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VCS</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VersionControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VersionControl</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VersionControlSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VersionControlSystem</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DVCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DVCS</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DistributedVersionControlSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DistributedVersionControlSystem</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DistributedVersionControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DistributedVersionControl</span></a>) <a href="https://git-scm.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">git-scm.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
das-g<p>If I understand your question correctly, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>b0rk</span></a></span>, you'd like to know where the term HEAD for the currently-checked-out revision in a <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/versionControlSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>versionControlSystem</span></a> *originally* came from.</p><p>If (be it for its own sake, or as an intermediate (first) step towards answering that above question) you're *also* interested in where <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Git</span></a> got it from or what the rational for that naming in Git was, maybe we can just ask <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.kernel.org/users/torvalds" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>torvalds</span></a></span> whether he remembers?</p>
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