Ask HN: How does GitHub web interface serve different branches of same repo?

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How is that I'm able to view a different branch on the github web interface while others are possibly viewing different branches of the same repo (on the )via the web interface? isn't checkout a stateful operation?

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Not that it answers your question directly, but this might be the best shot at finding out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4892602/how-does-the-gith...

Gosh my google skills must suck big time, thanks for the link!!!

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