A simplistic git implementation in Python3!

Git is the most widely used version control system, and this is my shot at implementing at least the basic functionality. I built this with Python3 with OOP principles in mind, following simplistic git internals.

Credit goes to Boot Dev for their courses on Python, OOP, and functional programming.

./install.sh
source ~/.bashrc  # or restart terminal

# Run the comprehensive Python demo with colorful output
python3 demo.py

# Or try the quick bash demo
./quick-demo.sh

NOTE: Add this to your IDE's workspace settings to visualize the git folders:

{
  "files.exclude": {
    "**/.git": false,
    "**/.minigit": false
  }
}

• minigit init - Initialize a new repository
• minigit add <file> - Stage files for commit
• minigit commit -m "message" - Create a commit with staged changes
• minigit status - Show working directory status and staged files
• minigit log - Display commit history
• minigit cat-file -p <hash> - Inspect git objects by hash
• minigit move u - Traverse up to parent commit
• minigit move d - Traverse down to child commit
• minigit checkout <commit-hash> - Jump to a specific commit

Object Inspection: Use cat-file -p to examine the internal structure of commits, trees, and blobs.

Commit Navigation: The move u/d commands let you traverse the commit history interactively without checking out each commit.

Branching, merging, and checkout to branches are not yet implemented and will be added in future versions.

• blog.md - Detailed code implementation walkthrough
• git-research.md - Deep dive into git internals (researched with Gemini 2.5 Pro)

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to open issues or submit pull requests.