Apr 5, 2025

fun git procedure

see history of git and what it actually means.

Demetre Badzgaradze

120 Words words, 32 Seconds

2025-04-05 00:00 +0000 [ 0d913f4 @ 2025-06-05]

fun git procedure

clone the git repo (might take a While)

git clone https://github.com/git/git.git

get into it and check it out. it the same one on the git on Github

cd git
ls

see the most important commits or the starting points of git

git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD

get the last one witch is actually the first one and checkout that commit

git checkout e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290

and see its legendary message from Linus Torvalds the creator of Linux kernel and git from 2005

git log

also see how small the project was back in a day and quick look at the README.md file and observe what creator describes his creation as

notepad README.md

or just cat it on Linux or nano