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yason on July 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Git Reset Demystified

Git is like that "one data structure with a hundred functions operating on it, instead of ten functions operating on ten data structures".

beza1e1 on July 14, 2011 [–]

And that "one data structure" is a directed acyclic graph of objects, where an object is one of four kinds:

- blob (like a file)

- tree (referencing trees and/or blobs, like a directory)

- commit (referencing one tree and other commits)

- tag (referencing a commit)

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