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git checkout 06e5d848f506564975199164a902af7180e987be
Even a mega-poindexter like Linus Torvalds does not want to go around writing 40-digit ID numbers everywhere
Commits of interest get symbolic names
That's what main is about
You can always write something like
git checkout main
and it will get whatever commit main refers to
Names like main are called refs
To make a ref to any snapshot:
git branch new-branch 06e5d84
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