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> an obviously weird action, like finding and checkout out a commit hash instead of a branch

But this isn't an obviously weird action? It happens all the time when you need to branch off from a previous point.

Maybe you're unexpectedly releasing a hotfix, maybe your current development is going in a bad direction, maybe you need to test something against a previous state.



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