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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

commits are immutable snapshots

git interactive rebase enters, stage right

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Which makes a new commit. The old commit before the rebase is still there until it's garbage collected. Editing a commit in any way changes its hash, turning it into a new commit.