Miscellaneous Things to Know about the Project

Phew! That was a lot of commands to go over just now. But don't worry, not all commands are created equal. You can see for each command the approximate number of lines we took to do each part (that this only counts code specific to that command -- it doesn't double-count code reused in multiple commands). You shouldn't worry about matching our solution exactly, but hopefully it gives you an idea about the relative time consumed by each command. Merge is a lengthier command than the others, so don't leave it for the last minute!

This is an ambitious project, and it would not be surprising for you to feel lost as to where to begin. Therefore, feel free to collaborate with others a little more closely than usual, with the following caveats:

• Acknowledge all collaborators in comments near the beginning of your gitlet/Main.java file.
• Don't share specific code; all collaborators must produce their own versions of the algorithms they come up with, so that we can see they differ.

The Piazza megathreads typically get very long for Gitlet, but they are full of very good conversation and discussion on the approach for particular commits. In this project more than any you should take advantage of the size of the class and see if you can find someone with a similar question to you on the megathread. It's very unlikely that your question is so unique to you that nobody else has had it (unless it is a bug that relates to your design, in which case you should submit a Gitbug).

By now this spec has given you enough information to get working on the project. But to help you out some more, there are a couple of things you should be aware of: