Shameless plug: I gave a tech talk on this at my last company, and implemented some of these in Golang as a learning exercise [0]. While it is not mandatory to

Shameless plug: I gave a tech talk on this at my last company, and implemented some of these in Golang as a learning exercise [0]. While it is not mandatory to know the internals, but doing so helps a lot when you occasionally encounter a git-gotcha! [0] https://github.com/ssrathi/gogit https://github.com/ssrathi/gogit