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John Wiegley
Personal blog · jwiegley.github.ioprogrammingsystems
John Wiegley's personal blog at jwiegley.github.io covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “Git from the Bottom Up (2008)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Git from the Bottom Up (2008)32 people · 37 mentions · first linked 2015-03-26
- /git-from-the-bottom-up/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-10
What Hacker News says?
Git From The Bottom Up : https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
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on “Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?”Submitted Git from the Bottom Up (2008) as a story · 205 points
HN discussionSee also "Git from the Bottom Up" https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ I read lots of tutorials on Git when I started with it just a few years ago, and that's the one that best helped me grok it.
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on “Git from the inside out”Submitted Git from the Bottom Up (2022) as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI recommend "Git from the bottom up"[1] for a nice and relatively simple tutorial that shows you the inner design of a git repository. [1] https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
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on “Write yourself a Git (2018)”Submitted Git from the Bottom Up as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
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on “Git is too hard”Submitted Git from the Bottom Up as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy recommendations: * Git From the Bottom Up: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ (PDF: http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf ) (See also: "Linus Torvalds' greatest invention": http://perl.plover.com/yak/git/ ) Once your mental model matches the program, you'll be able to understand everything, hack your own solutions if necessary, etc. * Learn Git Branching: https://learngitbranching.…
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on “How to teach Git”Submitted Git from the Bottom Up as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHaving read "Git from the Bottom Up" [1], it's interesting and refreshing how concise Torvald's explanation is. Of course, he also didn't have as much to explain at that stage :) [1] https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
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on “Ten Years of Git: An Interview with Linus Torvalds”Submitted Git from Bottom Up as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe most enlightening introduction to git internal model (graph of commits) and how the main commands alter it I have read so far: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ I think it is slightly more relevant to understand the model than the .git/ structure since the .git/ folder is just an implementation detail.
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on “Understanding Git for real by exploring the .git directory”Submitted Git from the Bottom Up as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAlso greatly worth reading: “Git from the Bottom Up”: * HTML version: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ * PDF version: http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf (via http://newartisans.com/2008/04/git-from-the-bottom-up/ ) The great thing is that after reading and understanding these, one's mental model matches the reality of the Git program, so one can both try bolder things, and get un…
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on “The Architecture of Git (2012)”Submitted Git from the Bottom Up as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's not a single digit minute read, but to me "Git from the Bottom Up" was what really made me understand git a long time ago. https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ git's the kind of tool where understanding how your commands operate on the underlying data structures will probably make it a lot easier to use efficiently. (And they're beautifully simple despite how powerful and flexible they are) As a t…
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on “Git In Two Minutes (updated after 8 years)”Submitted Git from the Bottom Up by John Wiegley as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGetting acquainted with git could be a suitable task for him. Acquiring that skill should pay of well for him. These two links might be a good start: http://gitimmersion.com/ and https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ Best of luck!
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on “Ask HN: How to Teach Coding?”Submitted Git from the Bottom Up as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSee also "Git from the Bottom Up": https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ (originally a PDF in 2008)
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on “Git from the inside out”Submitted Git from the Bottom Up as a story · 1 points
HN discussion["Git from the Bottom Up"]( https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ ) changed my life. Someone recommended this to me, and I recommend this to anyone seeking more information about git. People often just want to know "which commands to run", which is a fair expectation, until they reach a threshold of what they can do without knowing the internals. [When should someone read "Git from the Bottom Up"? What…
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on “Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II)”Well, the Part I have en entire chapter enticing you to read Git From The Bottom Up [0] before continuing. So the author can expect that you know what is a snapshot. [0] : https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
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on “Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II)”This is cool! For anyone wishing to learn why git is the way it is, I always recommend reading Git From the Bottom Up [0]. I don't consider myself a git guru, but I found this to be a really great read to understand the underlying concepts. 0: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
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on “Visualizing Git Concepts with D3”The author mentions the 30-odd page Git From the Bottom Up in his talk and I think it's a solid starting point-- https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
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on “Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part I)”Do/did you use other VCSes? I did. ClearCase, CVS, SVN, Mercurial. It's a real horror (excluding later) to deal with. Sometimes basic operations like merge need separate role (human) to perform. Mercurial is nice if you are a max middle-level and do not use anything besides checkout/commit/push. Any non-trivial stuff requires manual reading (the same as for git) I know you have no time to know your tool. But I don't…
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on “What comes after Git”Full of errors, I think John Wiegley’s “Git from the bottom up” is much better. https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
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on “Git from the Inside Out”many people have done it but here's another one https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
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on “Git as a NoSql Database (2016)”Web version: http://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ A nice resource in the same vein -- build a bare bones git in javascript: http://kushagragour.in/blog/2014/01/build-git-learn-git/ And finally, Linus's one page explanation of git's central concepts for the initial commit of git: https://github.com/git/git/tree/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca...
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on “Git from the Bottom Up (2009) [pdf]”
