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Git Internals: Objects, Trees, and the DAG Under the Hood

October 28, 2026 by Ruben
Abstract technical illustration for the article: Git Internals: Objects, Trees, and the DAG Under the Hood

Beneath every git commit lies a content-addressable object database of blobs, trees, and commits linked into a directed acyclic graph. This walkthrough unpacks the four object types, SHA hashing, the .git layout, refs, packfiles, and the plumbing commands that expose it all.

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