Great writeup! It's always fun to learn the details of the tools we use daily. For others, I highly recommend Git from the Bottom Up[1]. It is a very well-written piece on internal data structures and does a great job of demystifying the opaque git commands that most beginners blindly follow. Best…

Git from the Bottom Up (2022)

Here's a great walk through for how Git works from the bottom up: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ It's short, easy to understand and you'll understand HEAD.

You should read this: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/

Very tangential: Gerrit also stores some of its configs in a git repo. I was setting up a new instance, but couldn't get Admin permissions because the way my auth front-end didn't play well with the docker image's assumptions. Gerrit already does a lot of its work via non-standard references. For…

Git from the Bottom Up

You won't have to put your entire life on break in order to understand the fundamentals of git and why it works the way it works. Going through https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ and really understanding the material will take you a couple of hours at max, but will save you a lot of…

Git from the bottom up. A very clear and simple guide to the internals. https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/

Git From The Bottom Up : https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/

It's not a single digit minute read, but to me "Git from the Bottom Up" was what really made me understand git a long time ago. https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ git's the kind of tool where understanding how your commands operate on the underlying data structures will probably…