Ben Straub coauthored the 2014 second edition of Pro Git by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub with Scott Chacon. The book explains Git through snapshots, object relationships, branches and collaborative workflows.[ref]
Its branch model gives a useful technical distinction: a branch name refers to a commit, while the commit and its parent links record history. Moving a branch reference does not rewrite every historical file. Understanding that representation makes merging, recovery and inspection easier to reason about than treating each command as an unrelated operation.
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