tip of the branch back to the state before you ran
them.
<em>MERGE_HEAD</em> records the commit(s) which you are merging into your branch
when you run <code>git merge</code>.
<em>CHERRY_PICK_HEAD</em> records the commit which you are cherry-picking
when you run <code>git cherry-pick</code>.</p>
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<p>Note that any of the <em>refs/*</em> cases above may come either from
the <em>$GIT_DIR/refs</em> directory or from the <em>$GIT_DIR/packed-refs</em> file.
While the ref nam