Git First Steps
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The document discusses how Git was designed by a filesystem developer as a content-addressable filesystem with versioning capabilities rather than a traditional source code management system, as the developer's primary interest was in filesystems for kernels rather than creating a SCM system.
Git First Steps
- 26. “ In many ways you can just see git as a filesystem — it's content-addressable, and it has a notion of versioning, but I really really designed it coming at the problem from the viewpoint of a filesystem person (hey, kernels is what I do), and I actually have absolutely zero interest in creating a traditional SCM system. “
- 27. “ In many ways you can just see git as a filesystem — it's content-addressable, and it has a notion of versioning, but I really really designed it coming at the problem from the viewpoint of a filesystem person (hey, kernels is what I do), and I actually have absolutely zero interest in creating a traditional SCM system. “