Git

Internals

Git maintained snapshot of directory’s contents. It is a content-addressable filesystem, a simple key value data store. Keys are SHA-1 hash and values are objects.

There are 4 different types of objects:

  • Blob stores files (it does not store the name of the file)

  • Tree references other trees and/or blobs, stores the file name and groups them together (as directories do)

  • Commit points to a single tree and realize "snapshots".

  • Tag marks a specific commit

Tips

Ignore files in all projects but keep this for yourself

  1. Add to your ~/.gitconfig file

    ```
[core]
excludesfile = /home/username/.gitignore
```

  2. Create a ~/.gitignore file with file patterns to be ignored

Delete a range of tags both locally and remotely
for i in `seq 248 638`; do git tag -d $i; git push --delete origin $i;done