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 - Teach how to delete a branch with "git branch -d name".
 - Usually a commit has one parent; merge has more.
 - Teach "git show" instead of "git cat-file -p".

Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Santi Béjar authored and Junio C Hamano committed Jan 3, 2007
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will show a nice graphical representation of the resulting history.

At this point you could delete the experimental branch with

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$ git branch -d experimental
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This command ensures that the changes in the experimental branch are
already in the current branch.

If you develop on a branch crazy-idea, then regret it, you can always
delete the branch with

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$ git show experimental # the tip of the "experimental" branch
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Every commit has at least one "parent" commit, which points to the
previous state of the project:
Every commit usually has one "parent" commit
which points to the previous state of the project:

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$ git show HEAD^ # to see the parent of HEAD
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$ git diff v2.5:Makefile HEAD:Makefile.in
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You can also use "git cat-file -p" to see any such file:
You can also use "git show" to see any such file:

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$ git cat-file -p v2.5:Makefile
$ git show v2.5:Makefile
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