Abhy's Tech Stroke

  I have been away from writing anything for a long time and instead have been fooling around with other stuffs like just plain reading, growing mustache, trying to learn swimming, trying to learn to play acoustic guitar and trying my hands at photography. To be honest I have not given up on them yet but neither have I been able to hang on to them in a disciplined manner. So here I am back to my writing after a long gap. This time its going to be quick notes on Git . Git is a file repository. As opposed to other repositories like SVN Git thinks of its data more like a snapshot of a mini filesystem. All operations in Git are local. (Entire history of the project is stored locally in your working directory) Browsing project history. Viewing all changes to a file. Git uses Checksum to track repository items Everything in Git is check-summed It uses SHA-1 hash for generating check sum values All a...