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- Introduction
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- Introducing the blob
- Blobs are stored in trees
- How trees are made
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- Last links in the chain: Stashing and the reflog
Git from the bottom up
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 Filed in: GitIn my pursuit to understand Git, it’s been helpful for me to understand it from the bottom up — rather than look at it only in terms of its high-level commands. And since Git is so beautifully simple when viewed this way, I thought others might be interested to read what I’ve found, and perhaps avoid the pain I went through finding it.
The following article offers what I’ve learned on this journey so far. I hope it can help others to comprehend this wonderful system, and discover some of the joy I’ve experienced in the past few weeks.
Here is a summary from the table of contents:
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In my pursuit to understand Git, it’s been helpful for me to understand it from the bottom up – rather than look at it only in terms of its high-level commands. And since Git is so beautifully simple when viewed this way, I thought others might be interested to read what I’ve found, and perhaps avoid the pain I went through finding it.
The following article offers what I’ve learned on this journey so far. I hope it can help others to comprehend this wonderful system, and discover some of the joy I’ve experienced in the past few weeks. NOTE: After receiving more than fifty corrections by e-mail from very helpful readers, I’ve updated the PDF to reflect their input. The date at the front should read “Fri, 2 May 2008” if you have the latest version.
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28 Apr 08
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