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What Can We Learn from the Code in Git's Initial Commit?

May 23, 2020Jacob Stopak
What Can We Learn from the Code in Git's Initial Commit?
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This post provides a deep dive into the initial commit of the Git codebase, explaining its structure, components, and the mapping of early C code files to modern Git commands. It details the internal representation of Git objects (blobs, trees, commits) and the organization of the object database. The post also describes the role of the current directory cache and the working directory in the early Git architecture.