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DevOps PART 04

Inside a Git Commit: Snapshots, Objects and Hashes

We open commit, tree and blob objects with git cat-file to see that a commit is a snapshot, not a diff, compute a hash by hand with shasum and find out why an unchanged file is not stored twice. We cover the rules of a good commit message and why git commit --amend creates a new commit.

6 Nov 2026 10 min 2

DevOps PART 03

Your First Git Repo: git init, the Staging Area and the First Commit

We build the bookstore repo from scratch with git init and take a first look inside the .git folder. We walk through the working tree, staging area and repository with git status, git add and git commit, and learn to read the two columns of status -s and why an MM file commits its staged version.

6 Nov 2026 9 min 2