Re: About detached heads

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 14, 2008, 15:21 UTC
Message-ID: <200803141621.48321.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <b77c1dce0803140753w21515021u4541796d6e6934b@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:

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> On 14/03/2008, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
>>
>>   This way you would get exactly:
>>
>>     1---2---3---4---5---3'   <--- master <--- HEAD
>>
>>
>>  While the 3' commit has the same contents as 3, it is a new, distinct
>>   commit with its own history.  Its commit message should explain why
>>   you want to go from 5 back to the contents of 3.
> 
> Just a small question -- does that mean that 3 and 3' share the same
> tree object ?

Yes it does.

Commit object has link to a tree object in the form of its sha1 id, and repository's object store is content addressed, or to be more exact sha-1 id of contents addressed.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland