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		politician on Aug 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New in Git: switch and restore We ask candidates the most ridiculous algorithm and data structure design questions when we should be asking them to describe the git data structures. Let’s fix interviews and kill two birds with one stone.

Aeolun on Aug 1, 2021 | [–]

I do actually. If someone can describe to me what the (mechanical) difference is between a merge and rebase they’re likely to be better :P

saagarjha on Aug 1, 2021 | [–]

Git is mostly one (clever) data structure.

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