What is HEAD in Git?

Question

You see the Git documentation saying things like

The branch must be fully merged in HEAD.

But what is Git HEAD exac

Answer 1

A branch is actually a pointer that holds a commit ID such as 17a5. HEAD is a pointer to a branch the user is currently working on.

HEAD has a reference filw which looks like this:

ref:

You can check these files by accessing .git/HEAD .git/refs that are in the repository you are working in.