Building Git in Elixir — Part 1 (Initialize Repo & Store blobs)

I recently got hold of this book Building Git, written by James Coglan. It’s a pretty thick book covering, as the title says, building Git version control system using Ruby programming language. I thought it would be a fun exercise to implement Git using Elixir as I read the book. This article is the first introductory one in a series of articles focusing on my journey implementing Git in Elixir programming language.

This is not an introductory Elixir programming lesson. So, I am not going to focus on Elixir concepts or…