From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Henry Huang <henry.s.huang@gmail.com>
Cc: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [SoC RFC] about "restartable clone"
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:00:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090216160001.GC18525@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090215203714.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> wrote:
> Quoting Henry Huang <henry.s.huang@gmail.com>:
>
> > Now i have several problems:
> >
> > 1) Less familiar with git source code
> > 2) Less experience in Open Source Development
> > 3) No proposal for this project
> >
> > My questions:
> >
> > 1) Are there any documents for git's internals ?-- (.git/ structure,
> > data structures: DAG of objects,
> > branches, tags, index etc.) and workflow of main operations
> >
> > 2) Could anyone give me some hints -- where to begin with this project?
>
> A good starting point would be to download the source and look at the files in Documentation directory, including its technical subdirectory. The information in these files would answer large part of your questions in 1).
Also, the Git Community Book (http://book.git-scm.com/) chapter
7 "Internals and Plumbing" has some really nice detail on this.
I'm not sure it fully covers the algorithms used to generate a
pack file, but it does cover the data structures involved in
detail, with pretty graphics to help explain it. Scott has done
a wonderful job editing this text.
--
Shawn.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-14 2:38 [SoC RFC] about "restartable clone" Henry Huang
2009-02-15 11:37 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-02-16 16:00 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
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