I’m noshishi, a apprentice engineer in Tokyo.
This article is about understanding Git from the inside by creating a simple program that add and commit.
But it’s a very long story, so I’ll post the development section separately!
The starting point is ‘If I could understand git, I could make it?!!’
I took this opportunity to try out a new programming language, so I decided to try Rust this time. The repository I actually created is My original git nss. The quality of the code isn’t quite there yet and many parts are still incomplete, but you can do a straight line of local development!
If you give me a star, I’ll be happy to fly, and of course I’ll be waiting for your contributions! Feel free to touch this repository any way you like!
Please forgive us for not being able to explain some of the details in this article alone. Also, we use Rust for development, but Python for the stage where we uncover Git’s internals!
First, we will unpack how Git handles…