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Started by Samuel Okafor (@samokafor) ·

git is a content-addressed database pretending to be version control

4 sources · 33 min down the hole

How I got here

Started with
“how git works internally”
Ended at
BitKeeper

The Trail

  1. “how git works internally” (google.com)
  2. Git (en.wikipedia.org)
  3. Merkle tree (en.wikipedia.org)
  4. BitKeeper (en.wikipedia.org)

    the license fight that made Linus write git in about two weeks

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