From: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question About Sorting the Index
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 11:48:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2a24cbb-1438-46b9-b546-82c9f6dc7ebf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfrh3qe2w.fsf@gitster.g>
On 5/17/25 11:36 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> P.S. I'm trying to read the Git source code to get a better handle
>> on what actually goes on in the index but this is taking some time.
>
> Depending on the style of the learner, I often recommend reading the
> very initial revision of Git, i.e. e83c5163 (Initial revision of
> "git", the information manager from hell, 2005-04-07), to quickly
> get a feel of what various pieces there are and how they fit
> together, by doing
>
> $ git checkout -b initial e83c5163316f89bfb
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll do that.
Meanwhile, do you see any merit to my idea?
Cordially,
Jon Forrest
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-17 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-16 23:43 Question About Sorting the Index Jon Forrest
2025-05-17 3:46 ` Re " K Jayatheerth
2025-05-17 17:20 ` Jon Forrest
2025-05-17 18:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-17 18:48 ` Jon Forrest [this message]
2025-05-18 5:13 ` Elijah Newren
2025-05-18 15:13 ` Jon Forrest
2025-05-27 16:38 ` Jon Forrest
2025-05-28 2:34 ` Junio C Hamano
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