Chapter 4 of 242 min read
4. Commits — The Atomic Unit of History
4.1 What a Commit Is A commit is a permanent, immutable snapshot of the entire repository at a point in time, identified by a unique SHA 1 hash (e.g., ). Each commit stores a pointer to its parent commit(s), which is…
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