In his pursuit to understand Git, he found it helpful to understand it from the bottom
up—rather than look at it only in terms of its high-level commands. And since Git is so beautifully
simple when viewed this way, he thought others might be interested to read what he has found,
and perhaps avoid the pain he went through finding it.

He has used Git version 1.5.4.5 for each of the examples found in this document.

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