Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

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Post by drewsberry » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 7:45 PM UTC

Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories
drew.silcock.dev

Re: Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

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Post by sc68cal » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 9:11 PM UTC

To the site author: I'm on a MBP M1 Mac and honestly I can't really read the text. Far too small, and increasing the zoom just makes the text large but the margins less wide. Firefox reader mode also renders really badly.

Please, consider making the layout better for us old coders whose eyes are going, or for hi res displays

Re: Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

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Post by sam_lowry_ » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 9:19 PM UTC

sc68cal wrote: post #2

To the site author: I'm on a MBP M1 Mac and honestly I can't really read the text. Far too small, and increasing the zoom just makes the text large but the margins less wide. Firefox reader mode also renders really badly. Please, consider making the layout better for us old coders whose eyes are going, or for hi res displays

Works great on Firefox for Android though )

Re: Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

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Post by deadbabe » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 9:23 PM UTC

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Re: Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

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Post by lucasoshiro » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 9:27 PM UTC

Something that I really like in Git is how its data structures are easy to understand and how transparent it is. It's possible to write your own "Git" compatible with existing Git directories only by reading how it works under the hood

Re: Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

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Post by lysace » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 9:27 PM UTC

I would have called this: "Futzing around with internal git data structures".

Re: Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

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Post by lucasoshiro » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 9:34 PM UTC

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #3

sc68cal wrote: post #2

To the site author: I'm on a MBP M1 Mac and honestly I can't really read the text. Far too small, and increasing the zoom just makes the text large but the margins less wide. Firefox reader mode also renders really badly. Please, consider making the layout better for us old coders whose eyes are going, or for hi res displays

Works great on Firefox for Android though )

Also works great on Safari on a M1 MacBook Air, here

Re: Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 9:35 PM UTC

deadbabe wrote: post #4

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My understanding is that Mercurial is sort of Beta to Git's VHS. There are some definite advantages, but it's losing support.

Re: Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 9:35 PM UTC

deadbabe wrote: post #4

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Re: Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories

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Post by kassah » Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 9:52 PM UTC

The simplicity of Git is awesome. Great article! I had looked at what it would take to find a single file in a remote git repo. I decided against talking the git protocol directly and just checking out the entire repo to get a single file. Reading through this makes me think I may have given up too easily.

I asked a few git hosting providers, and they all said they had private APIs developed internally for the purpose.