rraval / git-nomad
⚠ This application is still in its prototype phase. Really bad things like data loss should not be possible and there's decent test coverage of the core workflows. That said, backwards incompatible iterations in response to public feedback are still on the table. Help make things better...
Let's say that the boreas machine is where development is happening now, so you go back to apollo to throw away the now outdated branch:
Git is unabashedly a content-addressed filesystem that manipulates blob, tree, and commit objects. Layered on top of this is a half decent version control system, though this claim is contentious at best.
Git branches are implemented on top of a more general scheme called refs, where the local branch master is simply the commit pointed to by refs/heads/master. Git reserves a few hierarchies for its own use:
