Git Essentials ??? Second Edition - Second Edition

It's all about labels

In Git, a branch is nothing more than a label, a mobile label placed on a commit.

In fact, every leaf on a Git branch has to be labeled with a meaningful name to allow us to reach it and then move around, go back, merge, rebase, or discard some commits when needed.

Let's start exploring this topic by checking the current status of our grocery repository; we do it using the well-known git log command, this time adding some new options:

[1] ~/grocery (master)
$ git log --oneline --graph --decorate
* e4a5e7b (HEAD -> master) Add an apple
* a57d783 Add a banana to the shopping list

Let's look at those options in detail:

• --graph: In this case it just adds an asterisk to the left, before the commit hash, but when you have ...