Scott Chacon coauthored Pro Git by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub, whose second edition appeared in 2014. With Ben Straub, he presents version control through its underlying object and history model as well as practical workflows.[ref]
A key example is the separation of a recorded snapshot from a branch reference pointing into its history. That distinction explains why branching is inexpensive and why a combined history can retain multiple parents after a merge. The book connects these mechanisms to collaboration, making the stored representation part of the explanation instead of only listing commands.
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