He who dove too deep into git checkout and git reset, Part 1
I love git. I think it's a brilliant masterpiece of design and programming by Linus Torvalds. To me it's more than just a tool—it's art. Ok I'm a little weird but we know that today git is the de facto tool for version control and an unequivocal cornerstone of successful software development.
In this blog post series, I'm going to dive really deep into the inner workings of the commands git checkout
and git reset
, break them down logically, and expose the method to the madness. You might already be familiar with a few aspects of these commands, but both of them conceal surprisingly powerful and useful functionality. Some of it might be new territory but I hope a lot of it will absolutely blow your mind. Either way, let's started with git checkout
.