I’m trying to learn Git, and I can’t imagine why the HEAD pointer would be called that. If I knew, it would be a lot easier to remember what it means.
I’m trying to learn Git, and I can’t imagine why the HEAD pointer would
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I’m trying to learn Git, and I can’t imagine why the HEAD pointer would be called that. If I knew, it would be a lot easier to remember what it means.
In computer science in general head is the part of a data structure conceptually closest to the observer, such as the first element of a linked list. The opposite is the tail, which is the farthest element.
In git
HEADis the commit on which you are currently operating, and is obviously the closest commit in the history graph. git is not unique in this naming; Subversion and CVS also used theHEADterm for equivalent concepts.