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I thought all the cool kids were on Pijul, or was it Darcs? Maybe it was Fossil? No wait, it was definitely Jujutsu.
Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories
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#12This is all very well but how does Linus Thorvalds use git? Given he invented the bloody thing, it might be nice to see how the Boss uses it!
git was created to scratch an itch (actually a bit of a roiling boil, that needed a serious amount of soothing ointment and as it turns out: a compiler, some source code and quite a lot of effort). ... anyway the history of it is well documented.
FFS: git was called git because a Finnish bloke with English as a second, but well used, tongue had learned what a "git" is and it seemed appropriate. Bear in mind that Mr T was deeply in his shouty phase at that point in time.
Artisanal git sounds all kinds of wrong 8) Its just a tool to do a job and I suggest you use it in the same way as the XKCD comic mandates (that is the official manual, despite what you might think)
The Conclusion is spot on - great article.
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#13Something 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
I agree, but only in theory.
Projects like gitoxide have been in development for years now.
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#15Neat to see this done by hand! It helps demystify the magic behind git commands.
If you like this, I also recommend "Write Yourself a Git", where you build a minimal git implementation using python: https://wyag.thb.lt/
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#16To 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
FYI: the pinch-to-zoom gesture from mobile browsers (from before websites were mobile-responsive) has also long been implemented for all modern desktop browsers. It's viewport zoom, which is far better than the font-scaling zoom you get by pressing Cmd-+, and makes this site easily readable.
(The much-less-well-known mobile double-tap-on-text gesture [it zooms-to-fit whatever element you tapped on to the width of the viewport] was also ported to desktop browsers. Though, on desktop with a touchpad, it's a two-finger double-tap — which I don't think anyone would ever even think to try.)
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#17I thought this was going to be a sardonic article about doing programming without LLMs.
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#18Something 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
I agree, but only in theory. Projects like gitoxide have been in development for years now.
I wrote a nearly complete implementation of git file format parsers in Common Lisp over like a month of evenings and weekends. I’m sure there are hard parts between where I am and a full git implementation but you can get quite a bit of utility out of a relatively small amount of effort.
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#19I realize the concept is very similar but would love to see a writeup on bow Docker stores images using OverlayFS. (Has quite a bit of metadata!)
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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.
I am sure that it is because the porn industry settled on Git :)
Anyways, I started on Mercurial, and I think it has a better UX, but technically I now prefer Git. The success of Mercurial over Git surprised me a little because of that, Git is not an easy version control system to get into, at least when compared to Mercurial, it shouldn't help adoption, but I guess it is just because some big names decided on Git.
Mercurial and Git use the same fundamental principles, and one is not really better than the other, just details.