Subject: Re: [SoC RFC] about "restartable clone"

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:00:01 -0800

Nanako Shiraishi <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Quoting Henry Huang <[email-masked]>:
> 
> > Now i have several problems:
> >
> > 1) Less familiar with git source code
> > 2) Less experience in Open Source Development
> > 3) No proposal for this project
> >
> > My questions:
> >
> > 1) Are there any documents for git's internals ?-- (.git/ structure,
> > data structures: DAG of objects,
> > branches, tags, index etc.) and workflow of main operations
> >
> > 2) Could anyone give me some hints -- where to begin with this project?
> 
> A good starting point would be to download the source and look at the files in Documentation directory, including its technical subdirectory. The information in these files would answer large part of your questions in 1).

Also, the Git Community Book (http://book.git-scm.com/) chapter
7 "Internals and Plumbing" has some really nice detail on this.
I'm not sure it fully covers the algorithms used to generate a
pack file, but it does cover the data structures involved in
detail, with pretty graphics to help explain it.  Scott has done
a wonderful job editing this text.

-- 
Shawn.