git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Question: regarding understanding code base

From
JAYATHEERTH K <jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 15, 2025, 00:48 UTC
Message-ID
<CA+rGoLcsuhhSOVJoK2vEV3m7PgH+8hpfpdih2furnyim=0gP+A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<xmqqldpt6dht.fsf@gitster.g>
On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
Show 15 quoted lines
>
> JAYATHEERTH K <jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > What I meant was:
> > You previously suggested that one good way to understand Git is to
> > start from the initial commit of the Git repo and move forward
> > chronologically through the commits.
>
> Not at all.  I only suggested to study the initial one.  It is more
> like biology students learning the common principles that apply to
> all kinds of life by studying a lot simpler organism as a model,
> instead of studying a lot higher order ones like mammals.
>
> Moving forward is all your invention or hallucination ;-)
>

Fair enough I have read your biology metaphor into a full evolutionary theory.

Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 5 of 9 in “Question: regarding understanding code base”
  1. JAYATHEERTH KJun 14, 2025
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 14, 2025
  3. JAYATHEERTH KJun 15, 2025
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 15, 2025
  5. JAYATHEERTH KJun 15, 2025
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2025
  7. JAYATHEERTH KJun 16, 2025
  8. Ben KnobleJun 15, 2025
  9. JAYATHEERTH KJun 15, 2025

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.