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Re: Lowlevel documentation

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Matthias Kestenholz <mk@feinheit.ch>
Date
Aug 23, 2009, 10:25 UTC
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On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Eric Schaefer<eric.schaefer@ericschaefer.org> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> a couple of week ago I read a blog post, a paper or an article about
> how a simple scm could be designed step by step and how this would
> become git in the end. It explained really nicely how things in git
> work and why. Does anybody know which document I am talking about? I
> can't find it anymore...
>
I think you are referring to this blog post:
http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.html
Matthias
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