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Knowledge is Power - Getting Out of Trouble by Understanding Git

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This talk explains Git’s internals and shows how understanding objects, references, and history operations can help developers recover from problems. It also covers bisecting to investigate regressions.

Syllabus

Intro
Two ways of learning Git
Not a nightmare scenario
XKCD
Internals
Everything is a blob
Git init
Git track
Git objects
Commit
Summary
Commits
Tree
Refs
Branches
Tags
Reset
Ref Log
Git GC
PAC file
Compressed files
Merges
Commit parents
Fastforward merge
Merge strategies
Rebase
Resetting
Replayed History
Replay History exec
bisector
regression testing
objects
hash objects
cat file
fun story

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