Git from the inside out

Certain systems can best be understood as black boxes. You put some commands in and magic happens. Git was not designed to be such a system and early users of git know this. During the last 5 years, many GUIs have filled in this gap, making it increasingly likely to find people completely stuck because they miss knowledge of the foundations. Git is a utility to manage an append-only repository of tree-objects, blobs and commits. To help humans, git adds…

> from inside out As a physicist it always surprises me how thinking between physicist and programmers most of the time is kind of reversed. Most git tutorials seem like this to me (Mechanics analogy): 1. Slopes 2. Springs and gears 3. Horrendous contraptions 4. Ropes and pulleys ... 9. Newton I., II. and III. These kind of "inside out" tutorials are natural for me and recently I taught git basics to my SO in a similar way. It worked…

>Git from the Inside Out https://github.com/git/git https://www.aosabook.org/en/git.html https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/git-from-the-inside... http://gitimmersion.com/

There is the video edition: https://youtu.be/fCtZWGhQBvo Anyway, excellent write from Mary Rose and she is an exceptional presenter as well!