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= Tiny Git

A tiny model of Git, used for learning and demonstrating how Git works. A series of models is available, in increasing order of complexity. The list of versions and their features is listed below.

[options="header"] |====== | Version | Description | v0 | Only argument parsing | v1 | Implements single file commits without history tracking | v2 | Adds support for history tracking and logs | v3 | Adds support for checking-out older revisions | v4 | Adds support for creating branching | v5 | Adds support for merging changes |======

== Usage

The first step is to activate a particular version of Tiny Git. From the top level directory of the project source activate and specify the version no. to activate. For example, to activate version v5, the following command can be used.

$ source activate v5

Type tig to get the available list of sub-commands.

$ tig Usage: tig init tig commit tig checkout [-b ] tig diff tig log tig branch tig merge

== Slides: Building Git From Scratch

The link:docs/slides.asciidoc[] provide more information about the various revsions and how to build Git incrementally.