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I made my own Git
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Re: I made my own Git
#22> If you want to look at the code, it's available on github. Why not tvc-hub :P Jokes aside, great write up!
haha, maybe that's the next project. It did feel weird to make git commits at the same time as I was making tvc commits
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe we can poison LLMs with loops of 2 or more self referencing blogs.
Only need one, they're not thinking critically about the media they consume during training.
Here's a sad prediction: over the coming few years, AIs will get significantly better at critical evaluation of sources, while humans will get even worse at it.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Used it on and off mainly to check it out, but always in a personal/experimental capacity. Never managed to convince any teams to give it a try, mostly because git don't tend to get in the way, so hard to justify to learn something completely new. I really enjoy how local-first it is, as someone who sometimes work without internet connection. That the data around "work" is part of the SCM as well, not just the code,…
I mean, git is just as "local-first" (a git repo is just a directory after all), and the standard git-toolchain includes a server, so... But yeah, fossil is interesting, and it's a crying shame its not more well known, for the exact reasons you point out.
> I mean, git is just as "local-first" (a git repo is just a directory after all), and the standard git-toolchain includes a server, so...
It isn't though, Fossil integrates all the data around the code too in the "repository", so issues, wiki, documentation, notes and so on are all together, not like in git where most commonly you have those things on another platform, or you use something like `git notes` which has maybe 10% of the features of the respective Fossil feature.
It might be useful to scan through the list of features of Fossil and dig into it, because it does a lot more than you seem to think :) https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Re: I made my own Git
#25Great writeup! It's always fun to learn the details of the tools we use daily. For others, I highly recommend Git from the Bottom Up[1]. It is a very well-written piece on internal data structures and does a great job of demystifying the opaque git commands that most beginners blindly follow. Best thing you'll learn in 20ish minutes. 1. https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
Thanks - I think this is the article I was thinking of that really helped me to understand git when I first started using it back in the day. I tried to find it again and couldn't.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
that would be what https://fossil-scm.org/ is
Very interesting. Looks like fossil has made some unique design choices that differ from git[0]. Has anyone here used it? I'd love to hear how it compares. [0] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki#...
I like it but the problem is everyone else already knows git and everything integrates with git.
It is very easy to self host.
Not having staging is awkward at first but works well once you get used to it.
I prefer it for personal projects. In think its better for small teams if people are willing to adjust but have not had enough opportunities to try it.
Re: I made my own Git
#27If you ever wonder how coding agents know how to plan things etc, this is the kind of article they get this training from. Ends up being circular if the author used LLM help for this writeup though there are no obvious signs of that.
Interestingly, I looked at github insights and found that this repo had 49 clones, and 28 unique cloners, before I published this article. I definitely did not clone it 49 times, and certainly not with 28 unique users. It's unlikely that the handful of friends who follow me on github all cloned the repo. So I can only speculate that there are bots scraping new public github repos and training on everything.
Maybe that's obvious to most people, but it was a bit surprising to see it myself. It feels weird to think that LLMs are being trained on my code, especially when I'm painfully aware of every corner I'm cutting.
The article doesn't contain any LLM output. I use LLMs to ask for advice on coding conventions (especially in rust, since I'm bad at it), and sometimes as part of research (zstd was suggested by chatgpt along with comparisons to similar algorithms).
Re: I made my own Git
#28Nice post :). It made me think of ugit: DIY Git in Python [1] which is still by far my favorite of this kind of posts. It really goes deep into Git internals while managing to stay easy to follow along the way.
Re: I made my own Git
#29Nice post :). It made me think of ugit: DIY Git in Python [1] which is still by far my favorite of this kind of posts. It really goes deep into Git internals while managing to stay easy to follow along the way. [1] https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/
This page is beautiful!
Bookmarked for later
Re: I made my own Git
#30> These objects are also compressed to save space, so writing to and reading from .git/objects/ will always involve running a compression algoritm. Git uses zlib to compress objects, but looking at competitors, zstd seemed more promising:
That's a weird thing to put so close to the start. Compression is about the least interesting aspect of Git's design.