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Discussion on: Confusing Terms in the Git Terminology

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Jakub Narębski • Edited

The last image is wrong, you always merge into current branch, so the image certainly does not describe git merge develop

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HS

If you do git merge develop into fearure/login image is OK. It points from develop into it so it's good. Am I missing something?

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Jakub Narębski

I'm sorry, I missed the fact that the image is turned upside down (more recent commits are lower), and that arrows follow time rather than actual references (commits points to their parents, not to their children), i.e. they are reversed to what I expected, but what might be not intuitive.

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HS

Now I get the confusion. Makes sense