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Understanding the Contents of the .git Folder

Rajaniraiyn R on May 24, 2023

If you've ever used Git before, you're probably familiar with the .git folder. This folder contains all of the information that Git needs to track ...
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zed-creator

Helpful article. Hope you would write about how and when these files interacting with a simple code project. As well as it would be great if you explain all files and folders of a small project from creating to the end and how and when they are inter related or cross functioning with each other. Which files and folders need to create manually to explain the output of the project. Thanks 🙏 in advance.

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Rajaniraiyn R

Sure @zedcreator I'll write on git - version control in mind.
Follow me and stay tuned, it will be out soon anytime

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Seung-zedd

i didn't notice this git folder deeply. Rather, i used to use it just for tracking my code and data. After knowing configuration of .git folder, i can understand the way of dealing with my file thx for sharing this helpful knowledge! :)

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Ishaan Sheikh

Nice article 👏

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SeongKuk Han

Great! I haven't come up wtih an idea digging to .git directory. I wondered how husky works. Now, I got a sense of it.

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Bryan King Pecho

Awesome guide to the .git folder! Thanks for simplifying Git's inner workings. 🙌

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takmanjim

Nice article, very helpful.

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Caio Vinicius

Very clear and concise, congratulations on the article!

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Adophlidu

@rajaniraiyn if we only have the .git floder, can we rebuild our project files with the snapshots in the object folder? hoping for your replying, thanks

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Rajaniraiyn R

Ideally we can. But those snapshots must be valid for the commit it refers to. If we are able to match them, then git's integrity checking will pass and we can rebuild our project.

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Masud Al Imran

That really helped a lot. Thank you

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Jyothikrishna

Great article @rajaniraiyn

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Mykhailo Kurtiak

thanks for sharing this article. Highly appreciated!

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Rajaniraiyn R

Thank you so much for your support.

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Bri

The guys over at CodingBlocks dot net did a really good series on how git works under the hood.
It's kinda crazy how well optimized it is!