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Build your own Git

Learn about git objects, plumbing commands and more

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Go
git
JavaScript
git
Python
git
Ruby
git
Rust
git
C++
git
C#
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Haskell
git
Java
git
C
git
Kotlin
git
TypeScript
git
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Git is a version control system used to track changes in source code. In this challenge, you'll build your own Git implementation that is capable of cloning a public repository from GitHub.

Along the way, you'll learn about the .git directory, Git objects, plumbing commands and more.

Stages

Git is a version control system used to track changes in source code. In this challenge, you'll build your own Git implementation that is capable of cloning a public repository from GitHub.

Along the way, you'll learn about the .git directory, Git objects, plumbing commands and more.

Initialize the .git directory
Very easy
We'd expect a proficient developer to take < 5 minutes to complete this stage.
Read a blob object
Medium
We'd expect a proficient developer to take 30 minutes to 1 hour to complete this stage.
Create a blob object
Medium
We'd expect a proficient developer to take 30 minutes to 1 hour to complete this stage.
Read a tree object
Medium
We'd expect a proficient developer to take 30 minutes to 1 hour to complete this stage.
Write a tree object
Medium
We'd expect a proficient developer to take 30 minutes to 1 hour to complete this stage.
Create a commit
Medium
We'd expect a proficient developer to take 30 minutes to 1 hour to complete this stage.
Clone a repository
Hard
We'd expect a proficient developer to take more than 1 hour to complete this stage.
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