Re-Implementing Git with Ruby

[davekinkead]

Learning the fundamentals of anything is critical to understanding it but I found git extra hard because the most common commands - the porcelain - are conceptually very different to the data model - the plumbing.

It all became (a little) clearer however when I rolled my selves up and got down and dirty in git's data model and tried to commit, branch, and merge manually. So I thought it might be fun/interesting/useful to dive into the sewers of git's plumbing and re-implement git with ruby, step by step. Anybody keen?

[ghiculescu]

:+1:

[patrickgordon]

+1 I'm terrible at Git and it terrifies me.

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[SorchaAbel]

+1

On 7 October 2015 at 12:06, Dave Kinkead notifications@github.com wrote:

Learning the fundamentals of anything is critical to understanding it but I found git extra hard because the most common commands - the porcelain - are conceptually very different to the data model - the plumbing.

It all became (a little) clearer however when I rolled my selves up and got down and dirty in git's data model and tried to commit, branch, and merge manually. So I thought it might be fun/interesting/useful to dive into the sewers of git's plumbing and re-implement git with ruby, step by step. Anybody keen?

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[gizotti]

:+1:

[RachelleOnRails]

:+1: Git scares me too.

[tomjrob]

+1 Great Idea.

[hackling]

Dave, you are a sucker for punishment. :+1: +1

[davekinkead]

Turns out this was much harder than I thought :( But hey, it least I know way too much about git internals now...

[davekinkead]

Notes coming soon. Or soonish.

[nigelr]

Great talk @davekinkead was both an intro to GIT for people as well as seeing some of the backend intricacies

[SorchaAbel]

Thanks Dave, I thought it was a great talk :)

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Great talk @davekinkead https://github.com/davekinkead was both an intro to GIT for people as well as seeing some of the backend intricacies

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[RachelleOnRails]

Thanks @davekinkead . I learned a lot about how git works under the hood and now I feel considerably less scared of it.

[patassetbuilders]

Hi Dave, Great talk about what happens under the hood. As an addendum

I find that the GitHub Desktop for mac provides a good user experience, in particular local commits are very clear before making the changes to remote repository. Great for newbies like me, reduces the number of commands that have to be committed to memory.

That said, I also think the network graphic on the github website really useful when there are multiple branches and users sharing the repository.

Once again thanks Pat

Pat James Managing Director | Asset Builders Pty Ltd | Agility Project Services Pty Ltd | 042 305 1175 www.assetbuilders.com.au www.project-portal.com.au

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Thanks @davekinkead https://github.com/davekinkead . I learned a lot about how git works under the hood and now I feel considerably less scared of it.

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[davekinkead]

Thanks for the feedback!