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Git from the Bottom Up – Commits

Coding Blocks

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Git - Multiple Parents?

Get is a collection of commits, each of which holds a tree, which reference other trees and blobs which store data like that's ta kind of it. Git does this thing you call an octo merge, right? Because it's, we typically just merge to commits more often than not. You don't technically have to. But there was another point thatiwas going to make too, with with the commits and the multiple parents, though. It could be as many as ou wanted. And that's why there's the octo cat, because, you know, it's not just doing two merges. That's why the github logo is, the octoCat is

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