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-# Git Is Not Magic
-
-I'm bored. Let's make a git repository out of whole cloth.
-
-Git repos are stored in .git:
-
- fakegit$ mkdir .git
-
-They have a “symbolic ref” (which are text files, see [`man
-git-symbolic-ref`](http://jk.gs/git-symbolic-ref.html)) named `HEAD`, pointing
-to the currently checked-out branch. Let's use `master`. Branches are refs
-under `refs/heads` (see [`man git-branch`](http://jk.gs/git-branch.html)):
-
- fakegit ((unknown))$ echo 'ref: refs/heads/master' > .git/HEAD
-
-The have an object database and a refs database, both of which are simple
-directories (see [`man
-gitrepository-layout`](http://jk.gs/gitrepository-layout.html) and [`man
-gitrevisions`](http://jk.gs/gitrevisions.html)). Let's also enable the reflog,
-because it's a great safety net if you use history-editing tools in git:
-
- fakegit ((ref: re...))$ mkdir .git/refs .git/objects .git/logs
- fakegit (master #)$
-
-Now `__git_ps1`, at least, is convinced that we have a working git repository.
-Does it work?
-
- fakegit (master #)$ echo 'Hello, world!' > hello.txt
- fakegit (master #)$ git add hello.txt
- fakegit (master #)$ git commit -m 'Initial commit'
- [master (root-commit) 975307b] Initial commit
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
- create mode 100644 hello.txt
-
- fakegit (master)$ git log
- commit 975307ba0485bff92e295e3379a952aff013c688
- Author: Owen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca>
- Date: Wed Feb 6 10:07:07 2013 -0500
-
- Initial commit
-
-[Eeyup](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VwVpaWUu30).
-
------
-
-Should you do this? **Of course not.** Anywhere you could run these commands,
-you could instead run `git init` or `git clone`, which set up a number of
-other structures, including `.git/config` and any unusual permissions options.
-The key part here is that a directory's identity as “a git repository” is
-entirely a function of its contents, not of having been blessed into being by
-`git` itself.
-
-You can infer a lot from this: for example, you can infer that it's “safe” to
-move git repositories around using FS tools, or to back them up with the same
-tools, for example. This is not as obvious to everyone as you might hope; people