Git Under the Hood
articles.foletta.org
There’s already loads of articles out there on git internals, so what’s different about this one? Two things:
- We’re going to avoid the lower level ‘plumbing’ git commands and limit ourselves to the five most common ‘porcelain’ commands: git {init, add, commit, branch, checkout}. All other work will be done using standard command line utilities.
- Using the R packages git2r and tidygraph, we’ll dynamically build up a picture of the connections between git’s objects to help understand how they are tied together.
There’s already loads of articles out there on git internals, so what’s different about this one? Two things:
- We’re going to avoid the lower level ‘plumbing’ git commands and limit ourselves to the five most common ‘porcelain’ commands: git {init, add, commit, branch, checkout}. All other work will be done using standard command line utilities.
- Using the R packages git2r and tidygraph, we’ll dynamically build up a picture of the connections between git’s objects to help understand how they are tied together.