Git & GitHub·Practice drills 11

Drill 16: Teach it — How Git stores history

Explain the example to someone who has never seen it.

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Explain the example to someone who has never seen it.

internals.shTerminal
git rev-parse HEAD
git cat-file -t HEAD
git cat-file -p HEAD
git ls-tree HEAD
git show --stat HEAD
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