{"id":10579,"date":"2015-01-24T11:51:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T16:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10579"},"modified":"2015-01-24T11:51:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T16:51:36","slug":"gitlet-git-implemented-in-javascript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/gitlet-git-implemented-in-javascript\/","title":{"rendered":"Gitlet: Git Implemented in JavaScript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gitlet.maryrosecook.com\/\">Mary Rose Cook<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/gitlet.maryrosecook.com\/\"><p>\n  Over the last six years, I&rsquo;ve become better at using Git for version control.\n  But my conceptions of the index, the working copy, the object graph and remotes have just grown fuzzier.\n<\/p><p>\n  Sometimes, I can only understand something by implementing it.\n  So, I wrote Gitlet, my own version of Git.\n  I pored over tutorials.\n  I read articles about internals.\n  I tried to understand how API commands work by reading the docs, then gave up and ran hundreds of experiments on repositories and rummaged through the <code>.git<\/code> directory to figure out the results.\n<\/p><p>\n  I discovered that, if approached from the inside out, Git is easy to understand.\n  It is the product of simple ideas that, when combined, produce something very deep and beautiful.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Rose Cook: Over the last six years, I&rsquo;ve become better at using Git for version control. But my conceptions of the index, the working copy, the object graph and remotes have just grown fuzzier. Sometimes, I can only understand something by implementing it. So, I wrote Gitlet, my own version of Git. I pored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[377,346,74,71],"class_list":["post-10579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-git","tag-javascript","tag-opensource","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10580,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579\/revisions\/10580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}