In the first post of this series,
I mentioned that git distributes its objects across multiple directories, chosen in a specific way.
In this post, we’ll look at how and why git creates them.
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Inside git's object database
Every file you track, every commit you make, amongst other specific things, are snapshots that live in one place: git’s objects database.
In this post, we’ll discuss the general anatomy of Git objects, and how git it stores and reads them.
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My fiancée hit a git edge case I couldn’t explain. So I did what any reasonable person would do — I rewrote git.
How one single byte led to silent Celery task corruption
During our RabbitMQ v4.x migration preparation, we started seeing exceptions we couldn’t make sense of, which eventually started bringing down our services.
Read MoreMaking it easy to track my diet via a web app
I used an AI agent to build meal and workout plans that would help me lose weight and deployed it to Cloudflare pages
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