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[Julia Evans] HEAD and heads

https://wizardzines.com/comics/head-and-heads/ - source

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Well, to reference Julia Evans another time:

head and HEAD are specifically the third meaning of 'branch', i.e. the newest commit on a branch, but can also refer to a commit not on a branch, when in that detached head state.

And while I'm not enamored with these names either, I can't think of a word that I like better for this meaning.
- @Knusper @mac The 'head' is sometimes called 'tip of the branch' if you want to invoke the meaning of branch as a pointer to the graph of revisions, as a tip where new commits are created.