Jan 28 · 7 min read · What I knew? I have been coding on and off, sometimes with gaps of several months, for the past two to three years. During all this time, I always hesitated to mention Git in my skills or confidently tell someone that I “knew Git.” Interestingly, I h...
Join discussionJan 22 · 3 min read · What is the .git folder? When you run git init in a directory, Git creates a hidden .git folder. This folder is the heart of your repository—it's where Git stores everything it needs to track your project's history. Think of it like this: your workin...
Join discussionJan 17 · 4 min read · A beginner-friendly guide to understanding Git internals (without memorizing commands) When I first started using Git, I treated it like a magic box.I typed git add and git commit, and somehow everything worked.But one day I asked myself a simple que...
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Jan 16 · 5 min read · Most Git tutorials focus on commands.This article focuses on what actually happens inside Git when we run those commands. Before going forward with this article, you can go throgh below for better understanding Why Version Control Exists: The Pendri...
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Jan 16 · 4 min read · When I first started using Git, I had the same thought: How it work? specially without using tons of space. We will understand this one by one. Actually, Git works through a three-stage local process that allows us to selectively save and track cha...
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Jan 14 · 5 min read · For a long time, I used Git without really thinking about what it was doing. I ran git add, followed it with git commit, and things mostly worked. The moment I became curious was when I accidentally opened the .git folder. It was full of strange file...
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