Re:Arctic Code Vault Contributor
by dgellow on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:38AM
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Haha, yes, I have this image in mind of future scientists trying to understand the mess the git CLI is! I'm sure they will have a bunch of theories in which git is considered a religious relic from past humans, used to summon some gods by writing weird incantations, that's already how it feels to me some time :)
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The git-cli is an inconsistent mess, agreed.
The data-model, however, is not. It is actually a very smart, mathematical (cryptographical) tree-structure[1].
I'm pretty sure some far future generation will be able to figure out the math behind a "git database". I'm actually more confident they will be able to do so, than your average "excel" or "winrar backup".
-- [1] I really started liking git and understanding what it all is about (and how to use the weird commandline --flags - or was is -flags or -f or -F or flags) after reading the Git From the Bottom Up book: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/