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> The real Git code is too complicated to be useful for learning basic concepts with ease. ... It deals with a lot of edge cases that we don't care about for learning.

Good choice, well explained. More than a toy problem space but stripped of factors that obscure the lesson. The author knows what they are doing.



> stripped of factors that obscure the lesson

Yes! I'm going to adopt that wording. Originally I tried to do a screencast about guided Git source code exploration but it didn't work because of that reason.




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