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 ```shell
 git log --graph --oneline
 ```
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+## Glossary
+
+ - git: an open source, distributed version-control system
+ - GitHub: a platform for hosting and collaborating on Git repositories
+ - commit: a Git object, a snapshot of your entire repository compressed into a SHA
+ - branch: a lightweight movable pointer to a commit
+ - clone: a local version of a repository, including all commits and branches
+ - remote: a common repository on GitHub that all team members use to exchange their changes
+ - fork: a copy of a repository on GitHub owned by a different user
+ - pull request: a place to compare and discuss the differences introduced on a branch with reviews, comments, integrated tests, and more
+ - HEAD: representing your current working directory, the HEAD pointer can be moved to different branches, tags, or commits when using git checkout
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