Mastering Git's Index

This talk explains the history, purpose, and current features of Git’s index, distinguishing what Git users need to understand from implementation details. It demonstrates index manipulation techniques, alternate indexes, and performance benefits of filter-branch’s index-filter.

Syllabus

Intro
What is Git
Git attributes
Gateless
Out of interest
The index
History of Git
Index
Reset
Why use Git
Clearing the index
GetRetreive
GetPrefix
Mono Repo
Assume unchanged
Skip work tree
Path check out
What is in the set cache
Get update index refresh
Git diff
Storytime
Performance