has anyone done this "write yourself a git" tutorial where you implement git in python? wyag.thb.lt
It looks cool and I'm curious about how long it takes to implement, and if people have found it a useful way to learn how git works
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not this but I have been following along the Building Git book which is done in Ruby but I am doing it in Python
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I've not, though I've been meaning to get hold of James Coglan's "Building Git" (about his deep dive into git reimplementing it in Ruby along the way) for a few years now. Thanks for the link!
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Why write it in Python (well, “because Python” is good enuff😇) when git is Lisp and Lisp is git already?
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Not this one but I did a git client on custom sockets, it was more about the network protocol than the internal structure based on:
git-scm.com/docs/pack-prot
github.com/AmarOk1412/p2p
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That and Mary Rose Cook's gitlet.maryrosecook.com taught me a _lot_. I still can't use the most advanced features of Git without a lot of swearing, but that's me, not them :-)
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This is also a fantastic read for understanding how git works under the hood
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I haven't done this yet, but my git teaching is based on tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the, which follows the same idea (build your own git from scratch) to give people a good mental model for how git works.
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