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Telos
Telos

Reputation: 1129

What does it mean for a snapshot to be atomic?

In the following command and explanation, what does the qualifier "atomic" mean in "atomic snapshots"? My best guess from the context is something akin to granularity?

git reset <commit>

# Move the current branch tip backward to <commit>, reset the staging 
# area to match, but leave the working directory alone. All changes made 
# since <commit> will reside in the working directory, which lets you 
# re-commit the project history using cleaner, more atomic snapshots.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 123

Answers (1)

Caleb
Caleb

Reputation: 124997

# since <commit> will reside in the working directory, which lets you 
# re-commit the project history using cleaner, more atomic snapshots.

In that context I think what's meant is that you can reset HEAD to some previous commit, and then squash all your subsequent changes into a single commit. A commit is the smallest unit of change in a git repository, and its often desirable to have a single commit that contains all the changes necessary to add some piece of work to the repo.

Upvotes: 1

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