Linus Torvalds' Greatest Invention
(Git Is Awesome)
Length: 60 minutes
Description
This talk is about Git, the greatest creation of Linus Torvalds, who
is also sometimes known as the author of the Linux kernel. Git is a
revision control system with a number of innovative features. The
talk does not explain how to use Git, but it does explain three of the
innovative features, how they work, and why they are clever.
The three features discussed are Git's use of SHA1 checksums as object
identifiers, its nonlinear model of repository history, and its
"index", which is a staging area between the working tree and the
repository. Along the way the talk discusses a number of common but
interesting use cases.
Table of contents
tgz file of the entire talk
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