UNDERSTANDING GIT: By building it from scratch
This article assumes some knowledge of Git – basically, if you ever wondered how does Git does the stuff he does, and more importantly, why is all this so complicated.
To understand Git better I propose a simple thought experiment. Let’s imagine that Alice, Bob and Charlie are really dedicated and smart developers, but on one particularly nasty day their Centralized Version Control dies. Now, since all three of them are hardworking, and they still want to deliver their changes to their client, they continue with their work. Later in the day, once all three of them quite a few changes, they need some way to merge all their changes together.