Understanding Git Conceptually

Introduction This is a tutorial on the Git version control system. Git is quickly becoming one of the most popular version control systems in use. A Story When I first started using Git, I read plenty of tutorials, as well as the user manual. After a few months, I started to understand those under-the-hood concepts. Understanding Git The conclusion I draw from this is that you can only really use Git if you understand how Git works. Half of the existing resources on Git, unfortunately, take just that approach: they walk you through which commands to run when, and expect that you should do fine if you just mimic those commands. This tutorial, then, will take a conceptual approach to Git. Go on to the next page: Repositories

Code School - Try Git Preface Git is a version control Swiss army knife. A reliable versatile multipurpose revision control tool whose extraordinary flexibility makes it tricky to learn, let alone master. As Arthur C. Rather than go into details, we provide rough instructions for particular effects. I’m humbled that so many people have worked on translations of these pages. Dustin Sallings, Alberto Bertogli, James Cameron, Douglas Livingstone, Michael Budde, Richard Albury, Tarmigan, Derek Mahar, Frode Aannevik, Keith Rarick, Andy Somerville, Ralf Recker, Øyvind A. François Marier maintains the Debian package originally created by Daniel Baumann. My gratitude goes to many others for your support and praise. If I’ve left you out by mistake, please tell me or just send me a patch! This guide is released under the GNU General Public License version 3. $ git clone # Creates "gitmagic" directory. or from one of the mirrors:

Git for Computer Scientists Abstract Quick introduction to git internals for people who are not scared by words like Directed Acyclic Graph. Storage In simplified form, git object storage is "just" a DAG of objects, with a handful of different types of objects. They are all stored compressed and identified by an SHA-1 hash (that, incidentally, isn't the SHA-1 of the contents of the file they represent, but of their representation in git). blob: The simplest object, just a bunch of bytes. tree: Directories are represented by tree object. When a node points to another node in the DAG, it depends on the other node: it cannot exist without it. commit: A commit refers to a tree that represents the state of the files at the time of the commit. refs: References, or heads or branches, are like post-it notes slapped on a node in the DAG. git commit adds a node to the DAG and moves the post-it note for current branch to this new node. The HEAD ref is special in that it actually points to another ref. History

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