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Re: [SoC RFC] about "restartable clone"

From
Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date
Feb 15, 2009, 11:37 UTC
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<20090215203714.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
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<1dacb48d0902131838i3a717ec9r96d8ae8224f7bc66@mail.gmail.com>
Quoting Henry Huang <henry.s.huang@gmail.com>:
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> Now i have several problems:
>
> 1) Less familiar with git source code
> 2) Less experience in Open Source Development
> 3) No proposal for this project
>
> My questions:
>
> 1) Are there any documents for git's internals ?-- (.git/ structure,
> data structures: DAG of objects,
> branches, tags, index etc.) and workflow of main operations
>
> 2) Could anyone give me some hints -- where to begin with this project?
A good starting point would be to download the source and look at the files in Documentation directory, including its technical subdirectory. The information in these files would answer large part of your questions in 1).
-- 
Nanako Shiraishi
http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/
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  1. Henry HuangFeb 14, 2009
  2. Nanako ShiraishiFeb 15, 2009
  3. Shawn O. PearceFeb 16, 2009

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