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orf on Jan 7, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)

There is, it's the .git directory. Both the protocol and the directory are well specified. See libgit2 for an example non-reference implementation.

I think someone even built an implementation in bash, but I can't seem to find it now.

Iwan-Zotow on Jan 7, 2020 [–]

> I think someone even built an implementation in bash, but I can't seem to find it now.

someone named Linus, I guess?

orf on Jan 7, 2020 | [–]

No, it was someone exploring git internals by writing a simple git implementation in bash.

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