Git Source Code Exploration Git Source Code Exploration | Zhiwei Li

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This is the Git source code — the actual distributed version control system written by Linus Torvalds. You’re in /Users/lzwjava/projects/git which contains the full C source tree of git itself.

Key files you’ll find:

  • Core: builtin/ (commands), object-store/, refs/, diff.c, merge.c
  • xdiff/: diff/merge algorithms (patience, histogram)
  • Transport: remote-curl.c, send-pack.c, fetch-pack.c (protocol handling)
  • Pack files: pack-objects.c, index-pack.c
  • Refs: refs/ directory for ref storage backends

The project is ~600K lines of C, built with Makefile, and uses autoconf for configuration.

What are you exploring here — studying git internals, contributing a patch, or something else?

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