Git Internals

A branch vanishes after a reset. A rebase drops a commit nobody notices until Friday. A stash is gone, or a force-push overwrites a colleague's work. This book shows how a repository really works, so you can fix these problems calmly instead of guessing. You build commits by hand from blobs, trees and refs, then see how reset, rebase, cherry-pick and bisect are small operations on that model. You ...