Git: Under the hood
Jan 30 · 5 min read · Introduction If you are a software developer or do any king of coding, then you must have been using the Git for a while ever wondered how Git works internally. Git is not just version control system it is a content-addressable filesystem. Today, we ...
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How Git Works Internally — A Simple Mental Model (No Magic, Just Files)
Jan 29 · 5 min read · Git feels magical? You run a few commands — git add, git commit, git checkout — and suddenly you have time travel, branching universes, and safe collaboration. But Git isn’t magic.It’s a very clever content-addressed file system. Once you understand ...
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Git Internals
Jan 29 · 6 min read · Introduction Git is a content-addresable-filesystem which smartly stores the snapshot of our project. It saves complete pictures of our entire project at each moment. The magic is in how it uses cryptographic hashing to ensure nothing ever gets lost ...
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Inside GIT : What's GIT Actually Hiding?
Jan 28 · 4 min read · Whenever we start to use git we begin with the most basic git command i.e., git init which initialize a repository or creates a new repository, we think its actually magical but the fact is every thing work technically. This is what i will be sharing...
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Inside Git : How it works and the role of .git folder
Jan 28 · 4 min read · Let’s see under the hood of Git : Look at this image : This is what inside .git folder looks like. Let us take an example : Imagine in our project we just have a single file named “Myfile.txt“. Now, when we run the command git init. It initialize an...
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Jan 27 · 3 min read · Most of us treat Git like a black box: remember the Git command like Git add,Git commit, Git push and that's it and we think this is it. But we don't actually understand the working of Git, like where does the file go? How Git track our every changes...
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Jan 17 · 4 min read · If you code, you use Git. You type git add, git commit, and git push. It feels like magic. You type a few words, and your code is saved forever. But have you ever thought: How does it actually work? Most developers think Git is a magic black box. You...
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Jan 17 · 3 min read · We’ve all seen it. You initialize a project, and suddenly there’s a hidden .git folder sitting there. It’s small at first, but it’s the brain of your entire project. If you delete that folder, your project’s "memory" is gone. To master Git, you have ...
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Jan 17 · 5 min read · Introduction If you are a software developer or do any king of coding, then you must have been using the Git for a while ever wondered how Git works internally. Git is not just version control system it is a content-addressable filesystem. Today, we ...
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