Most devs overlook an excellent resource for improving their coding and dev skills - learning from early versions of open source codebases.
Reading other peoples' code and understanding it can be incredibly useful in various contexts.
In the spirit of this, I tried my hand at understanding how Git's code works. It turns out that Git's original version - i.e. Git's initial commit - is written in the C programming language and consists ONLY of ~1,000 lines of code.
I found it so interesting and learned so much - and want to encourage other devs to do the same.
Jumping into a new codebase can be intimidating, so I put together a guidebook to help devs learn how Git's original code actually works - the Decoding Git Guidebook for Developers.
Reading other peoples' code and understanding it can be incredibly useful in various contexts.
In the spirit of this, I tried my hand at understanding how Git's code works. It turns out that Git's original version - i.e. Git's initial commit - is written in the C programming language and consists ONLY of ~1,000 lines of code.
I found it so interesting and learned so much - and want to encourage other devs to do the same.
Jumping into a new codebase can be intimidating, so I put together a guidebook to help devs learn how Git's original code actually works - the Decoding Git Guidebook for Developers.