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Understanding git for real by exploring the .git directory

Pierre on February 25, 2019

“Whoah, I’ve just read this quick tuto about git and oh my god it is cool. I feel now super comfortable using it, and I’m not afraid at a...
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Ali Spittel

So glad you cross posted this! I actually used to have this as a mandatory reading assignment for students. It’s an excellent post! I definitely learned a lot from it even though I’ve used git for a while.

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Pierre • Edited

Wouah, thanks a lot.
Never though something I wrote was mandatory for some students somewhere out there.

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Gabriel Mayta

I use hooks to avoid commits when there are syntax errors in the code! Amazing article.

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Pierre

Thank you very much. Glad you liked it :)

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David J Eddy

Excellent explanation Pierre,

The link to part 2 leads to a 404. :(

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Pierre

Damn, thank you David!

This should be fixed.

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anjireddylella

I am more confident and comfortable now with git. Great article. Thanks much.

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Pierre

Thank you I am glad you liked it. There is more to come soon :)

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Andrei Dziahel

That's why I prefer Mercurial over Git 9 times of 10 — reading built-in help is just enough for basically anything :)