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Comment by Conlectus

Looks neat! This reminds me heavily of the excellent Building Git by James Coglan[1].

From a cursory glance though, it doesn't seem to support reading packfiles. This was the big thing that prevented me from using a fully custom Git implementation when I wrote my git churn calculator[2]. For larger repositories, it seems that almost all files are stored in packfiles, rather than the conceptually simpler "loose" format.

For me, the most valuable resource was reading the Git / libgit2 source and reference documentation.

[1] https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/

[2] https://github.com/samdoiron/butter

parent Conlectus 6 years ago

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