Show HN: ugit – Learn Git Internals by Building Git in Python

Looks neat! This reminds me heavily of the excellent Building Git by James Coglan[1]. From a cursory glance though, it doesn't seem to support reading packfiles. This was the big thing that prevented me from using a fully custom Git implementation when I wrote my git churn calculator[2]. For larger repositories, it seems that almost all files are stored in packfiles, rather than the conceptually simpler "loose" format. For me, the most valuable resource was reading the Git / libgit2…

I really love the idea, but it's sent me down the Python packaging rabbit hole because the very first page's recommendation to use `python3 setup.py develop --user` doesn't work without some customization that I have yet to figure out. First, it seems to (maybe?) work better with a venv running, which I didn't have. Ok, I can create one. Next, `SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated`, although I can live with that for now. Next, I'm provided with a long list…

I particularly like the iterated development approach to teaching on this site. That is, one starts with some minimal working code, states a goal, and then modifies the code to accomplish that goal --- repeatedly. This is a very powerful way to go through a codebase (when it is possible).