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When you have to checkout the master branch (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree, I wonder why they decided to design it that way in the first place.

[–] paperplane@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

In both cases, checkout updates your working tree (by checking out either all or just some files from a commit), just when you're switching branches it moves your HEAD pointer too