Learning Git Internals by Example - teohm

Learning Git Internals by Example - teohm

After switching to Git from Subversion and Mercurial for a few months, somehow I feel that Git is fundamentally different from Subversion or Mercurial, but couldn't really tell the differences. I often see terms like tree, parent etc. in GitHub, which I have no idea what they actually mean.

So I decided to spent some time to learn Git.

I will try to summarize and publish important stuffs I learned about Git along the way.. but here is the first entry, about Git internals, which helped me to answer how Git is different other source control tools.

Objects, References, The Index

To understand the core of Git internals, there are 3 things to we should know: objects, references, the index.

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