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Raw Git

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May 05, 2014
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Raw Git

A quick presentation covering some of the basics of working with Git objects in Ruby.

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May 05, 2014
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Transcript

  1. Raw Git Underneath the porcelain and plumbing

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  3. What is git? • Distributed Version Control System • A

    content addressable filesystem • OMG It’s full of SHA1 hashes! • With some reference logs to these hashes That’s pretty much it...

  4. git in 15 seconds

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  11. wtf just happened?

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  13. so many files. ermahgerd.

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  15. its just a graph, really

  16. with three main objects

  17. “files” blobs

  18. “directories” trees

  19. “references to trees” commits

  20. and a reference log

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  22. … because its easy let’s do this by hand

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  26. “blob” SP <length> NUL

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  36. does git work now? we made a blob!

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  40. NOPE!

  41. we need our tree

  42. “tree” SP <length> NUL <mode> <name> NUL <sha>

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  52. does git work yet? now we have a tree!

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  56. NOPE!

  57. still need the commit

  58. “commit” SP <length> NUL “tree <sha>” LF “author <name> <timestamp>”

    LF “committer <name> <timestamp>” LF LF “<message>” LF
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  67. lol typo

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  69. does git work now?!? ok, we have our objects

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  73. NOPE!

  74. what gives?

  75. AKA Let’s glue it all together that pesky reflog

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  79. That’s it!

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  85. git is really simple

  86. and extremely flexible

  87. go build your own workflow!

  88. and don’t be scared to look under the hood

  89. Thanks!

  90. github.com/jssjr @scott_sanders