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Figure 2-8
.
The main window of the gitk application
Using
gitk
you can easily check not only the list of revisions but also the modific-
ations introduced in every revision.
Try scrolling down the revisions. You will see that the revisions do not necessarily
form a linear history. The nonlinear history is shown in
Figure 2-9
. We will deal with
nonlinear histories in
chapters 5
,
6
,
and
7
.