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This is essentially adding a blob inside .git/objects by taking a sha1 hash of the data after appending a header "blog <length>\00<data>". Then the first two ch

by srathi 7y ago

This is essentially adding a blob inside .git/objects by taking a sha1 hash of the data after appending a header "blog <length>\00<data>". Then the first two characters of the hash are created as a directory and the remaining 38 acts as the file name inside which the zlib compressed data is stored. Nice project for learning the git internals.

ddevault 7y ago
Well, it also includes creating tree and commit objects, and reading and writing the git index.
- srathi 7y ago
  Yes, of course. I was mainly stating the starting point.