Re: About GIT Internals

From: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Date: May 25, 2022, 16:49 UTC
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On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 9:11 AM Aman <amanmatreja@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hello there,
>
> I have recently been reading The Architecture for Open Source
> Applications book - and read the chapters dedicated to GIT internals.
> And if I am being completely honest, I didn't understand most of it.
>
> Could someone please assist - in sharing some resources - which I
> could go through, to better understand GIT software internals.

I am really excited you asked! This puts you firmly on the road to being the person who can help unstick all your friends when they get into Git messes later on. ;)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IQCRPHEIX-qKo7QFxsD3V62yhyGA9_5YsYXFOiBpgkk/edit?usp=sharing <- This is a really great intro to the internals which I love. I pretty much always recommend it as the place to start for someone curious about learning how Git works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gq3KVvcfDk <- This covers much of the same territory but has a nice video to go through it, in case it's easier for you to learn that way instead of reading slides.

If you have additional questions about the technical design of Git following one or both of those presentations above, I think you could get far starting with Git's own design documentation: https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/Documentation/technical

From there I think the list will be the best place for specific followup questions you might have.

Happy learning!

 - Emily