June 2009
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
9h 29m
English
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Git Concepts at Work
With some tenets out of the way, let’s see how all these concepts and components fit together in the repository itself. Let’s create a new repository and inspect the internal files and object store in much greater detail.
Inside the .git directory
To begin, initialize an empty repository using git init and then run find to reveal what’s created:
$mkdir /tmp/hello$cd /tmp/hello$git initInitialized empty Git repository in /tmp/hello/.git/ # List all the files in the current directory $find .. ./.git ./.git/hooks ./.git/hooks/commit-msg.sample ./.git/hooks/applypatch-msg.sample ./.git/hooks/pre-applypatch.sample ./.git/hooks/post-commit.sample ./.git/hooks/pre-rebase.sample ./.git/hooks/post-receive.sample ./.git/hooks/prepare-commit-msg.sample ./.git/hooks/post-update.sample ./.git/hooks/pre-commit.sample ./.git/hooks/update.sample ./.git/refs ./.git/refs/heads ./.git/refs/tags ./.git/config ./.git/objects ./.git/objects/pack ./.git/objects/info ./.git/description ./.git/HEAD ./.git/branches ./.git/info ./.git/info/exclude
As you can see, .git contains a lot of stuff. All of the files are based on a template directory that you can adjust, if you so choose. Depending on the version of Git you are using, your actual manifest may look a little different. For example, older versions of Git do not use a .sample suffix on the .git/hooks files.
In general, you don’t have to view or manipulate the files in .git. These “hidden” files are considered part of Git’s plumbing ...
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