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[Julia Evans] HEAD and heads (programming.dev)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by mac to c/git
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Well, to reference Julia Evans another time:

head and HEAD are specifically the third meaning of 'branch', i.e. the newest commit on a branch, but can also refer to a commit not on a branch, when in that detached head state.

And while I'm not enamored with these names either, I can't think of a word that I like better for this meaning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

@Knusper @mac The 'head' is sometimes called 'tip of the branch' if you want to invoke the meaning of branch as a pointer to the graph of revisions, as a tip where new commits are created.