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What is Git made of? (2022)

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

An introduction to the internal structure of Git, explaining how Git stores data as objects and how hashes are used. The piece guides readers toward building a tiny Git in Go, covering blobs, trees, and commits, and discusses storage concepts like loose objects vs packfiles. It also points to a full gist with a compact implementation.

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