Alright let me do some reading then return with some more questions. :-)
Christopher
On 8/16/2019 9:16 AM, Philip Oakley wrote:
Branches are not folders.
What you are looking at (inside the .git folder) is the hidden, behind
the curtain, workings of Git that you should not touch.
Use the Git commands to find out what Git knows. Time to read the Git
scm book https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 (other books/videos are
available..).
the magic file HEAD will contain, usually a line that says it (HEAD,
the current lead bit of work that Git remembers) is a 'ref' or
reference to one of the 'heads' which will then be the name of your
branches (e.g. master). Alternatively it will be a specific SHA1 40
char hex value (as will the refs/heads/<branch> thingies).
The SHA1 value (in the various heads) is the object name (and
equivalently the hash of the object), almost always for a commit
object. That SHA1 hash lets Git go to its objects store (.git/objects)
and look it up. Each of the commit objects is a one way linked list,
without any recursion or looping (what is called the DAG - directed
acyclic graph), so you can see the previous commit, and then its
previous commit etc. The key point here is that Git takes snapshots.
It does _not _record 'diffs'.
Once git gets a few objects created it 'packs' them together with a
fancy 'Linus' Law' compression, so that all the history fits into a
rather small (in the scheme of things) pack file (mentioned in case
all you see is the pack file)
Hope that little intro gets you started.
Philip
On Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 2:51:45 AM UTC+1, CrestChristopher wrote:
My repository got created but rather then my folders on my local
system becoming the main branches, essentially allowing me to be
in the directory with the file that I want to push, and it will
get pushed to the identical folder repository. Instead in the same
path, my repository got created long with these folders, not
identical ?
|.git\config .git\description .git\HEAD .git\hooks .git\info
.git\objects .git\refs |
Christopher
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