Every git word you keep hearing, translated
Git words describe genuinely useful ideas wearing genuinely hostile names. Here's the whole vocabulary, translated into what each thing actually is. Nothing on this list is a thing you need to learn to operate, but knowing what people mean stops the conversations going over your head.
| they say | it means |
|---|---|
| repo (repository) | your project and its entire history, as one folder |
| commit | a saved version: a snapshot of the whole project at one moment, with a note |
| commit message | the note on a saved version saying what changed |
| push | send your saved versions to the copy that lives online |
| pull | fetch the latest saved versions from the copy that lives online |
| branch | a draft: a parallel copy of the project for trying changes safely |
| merge | fold a draft's changes back into the main version |
| merge conflict | two versions changed the same lines; a human must pick (full translation) |
| pull request (PR) | a draft formally proposed for review before it becomes the main version |
| diff | a before/after view of exactly what changed |
| revert / rollback | undo: return to an earlier saved version |
| clone | download a complete copy of the project, history included |
| fork | your own separate copy of someone else's project |
| main / HEAD / origin | bookkeeping names for "the primary version", "the version you're looking at", "the online copy" |
The honest summary
Git is an undo system with a filing system attached, built in 2005 for teams of professional programmers coordinating by hand. Every concept above exists because it solves a real problem you also have: versions, drafts, undo, combining work. You need the concepts. Whether you need the vocabulary is a different question — Plyo runs real git underneath and surfaces it as Timeline, Checkpoint, Draft, and a button called Restore, so your AI speaks git and you never have to.
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