Re: About GIT Internals

From: Aman <amanmatreja@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 4, 2022, 15:24 UTC
Message-ID: <CACMKQb3gYwdyfRSLWO4FWb6+Kxrk-WURpLayrgFsszCKMhWONw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2022, at 8:53 PM Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru> wrote:

> Well, depends on what you mean when talking about the two mentioned designs.
> I mean, there's the design of the approach to manage data and there's the
> design of the software package (which Git is).

That's a good perspective on the distinction between the designs. I am not familiar yet, with the design of GIT as a software package, and I am guessing most people who'll be learning about GIT internals won't be.

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> If you do also understand the latter - that is, understanding that Git is an
> assortment of CLI tools combined into two layers called "plumbing" and
> "porcelain", - then you should have no difficulty starting to read the code:
> basically locate the source code of the entry point Git binary (which is,
> well, "git", or "git.exe" on Windows) and start reading it.

How do I do that?  What do you mean by the "entry point" of the git binary?