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O'reilly book (Score:1)

by dagolden (6584)

The preview copy of the O'reilly book on git had some great diagrams as well of how the object model works and the DAG.
What I finally grokked is that the stash is just the NEXT NODE in the DAG before it's been hooked onto the end. All a commit does is set the stash's parent pointer equal to the current branch pointer and set the current branch pointer equal to the stash.
It's not really an "extra layer" -- it's just the next node under construction.
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  by jand (379)
  
  You mean the "cache", not the "stash", right?
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    by dagolden (6584)
    
    Yes. Cache/index.
    - Re:O'reilly book (Score:2)
      
      by jand (379) <jand@activestate.com> on 2009.07.05 3:24 (#69263) Journal
      
      I only mentioned this because git does have the concept of a stash (`git help stash`), which is distinct from the cache/index; I wasn't just nitpicking on the words.
      
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        by dagolden (6584)
        
        No problem. I didn't think you were nitpicking. :-)

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