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Re: Git book figure bug

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Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 2, 2015, 08:36 UTC
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Jesper Jørgensen <Jesper.Jorgensen@prevas.dk> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I am learning how git works, and is using the excellent book on the official site.
> I believe I have located a mistake in one of the images.
> It is  about Figure 3.17 on this page : http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Basic-Branching-and-Merging
>
> As far as I understand it, the right most snapshot called C5 should have been named C6.
> The texts describes a new snapshot being made from the merge of the 2 branches.
> Having 2 snapshots both named C5 does not seem like it can be possible.
>

Indeed you are correct. Looks like this was fixed a while ago https://github.com/progit/progit2/commit/3491527b33251fcacd8d2964bf7fb5e0f1cfe455 but hasn't made it into the "live" website.

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