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Merge pull request #638 from wget/patch-1
"in actuality" sounds too "frenchist" and uncommon in English
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Because a branch in Git is in actuality a simple file that contains the 40 character SHA-1 checksum of the commit it points to, branches are cheap to create and destroy.
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Because a branch in Git is actually a simple file that contains the 40 character SHA-1 checksum of the commit it points to, branches are cheap to create and destroy.
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Creating a new branch is as quick and simple as writing 41 bytes to a file (40 characters and a newline).
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This is in sharp contrast to the way most older VCS tools branch, which involves copying all of the project's files into a second directory.

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