by John Britton for
Git is a version control system built on well known patterns in computer science.
I will take you to the very bottom. The floor. The code. The algorithms. The directed acyclic graph of hashed bit sequences made efficient through LZW compression and deferred garbage collection determined by node reachability via hash relationships.
We want and need to know precisely how things work. Let’s dig into the guts of Git.
Not sure why the link isn't on this page already?