Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI just think of git as a graph and branches/tags as text pointers to nodes in the graph. Doesn't seem that complex to me... Maybe I "got gud" though and can no longer empathize with git beginners
Conceptually, git is simple and elegant. The porcelain, however, is incoherent and riddled with special cases. This makes it a hard sell to businesses and developers who struggle to understand that version control is a process, not a button. So, articles like "Git for CS" are great and all, I guess, but what I'd really like to see is an article on "Git for junior Windows developers" or "Git for Your Boss" or "The case for git: delivering business value…
I actually found this quite accessible, I was expecting something very complicated or theoretical but it's a good visualization and explanation about the internals of Git.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 452
- Total comments
- 133
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-07-17 | Quick introduction to git internals for people who are not scared by words like Directed Acyc. Graph | nickb | 4 | 0 |
| 2009-04-21 | Git for Computer Scientists | mattyb | 2 | 0 |
| 2010-07-04 | Git for Computer Scientists | Mathnerd314 | 70 | 17 |
| 2011-10-23 | Git for Computer ScientistsFirst breakout | humanfromearth | 103 | 15 |
| 2016-02-25 | Git for Computer Scientists | kercker | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-01-08 | Git for Computer Scientists | adambyrtek | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-04-03 | Git for Computer Scientists | adambyrtek | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-01-26 | Git for Computer Scientists | furcyd | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-07-25 | Git for Computer Scientists | smartmic | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-06-13 | Git for Computer Scientists (2010)Hall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | thanato0s | 259 | 101 |
| 2023-06-14 | Git for Computer Scientists (2010) | g4zj | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-03-17 | Git for Computer Scientists (2010) | imadj | 2 | 0 |