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• Git from the bottom up

  
  
  Sun, 27 Apr 2008 Filed in:
  Git
  
  
  
  
  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.
  
  
  Here is a summary from the table of contents:
  
  
  
  
  • Introduction
  
  
  • Repository: Directory content tracking
  
  
  • Introducing the blob
  
  
  • Blobs are stored in trees
  
  
  • How trees are made
  
  
  • The beauty of commits
  
  
  • A commit by any other name…
  
  
  • Branching and the power of rebase
  
  
  • Index Cache: Meet the middle man
  
  
  • Taking the index cache farther
  
  
  • To reset, or not to reset
  
  
  • Last links in the chain: Stashing and the reflog

• 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.