bravegnu / Tiny Git
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= Tiny Git
A tiny model of Git, used for learning and demonstrating how Git works. A series of models is available, in increasing order of complexity. The list of versions and their features is listed below.
[options="header"] |====== | Version | Description | v0 | Only argument parsing | v1 | Implements single file commits without history tracking | v2 | Adds support for history tracking and logs | v3 | Adds support for checking-out older revisions | v4 | Adds support for creating branching | v5 | Adds support for merging changes |======
== Usage
The first step is to activate a particular version of Tiny Git. From
the top level directory of the project source activate
and specify
the version no. to activate. For example, to activate version v5
,
the following command can be used.
$ source activate v5
Type tig
to get the available list of sub-commands.
$ tig Usage: tig init tig commit tig checkout [-b ] tig diff tig log tig branch tig merge
== Slides: Building Git From Scratch
The link:docs/slides.asciidoc[] provide more information about the various revsions and how to build Git incrementally.