[necovek]

I believe this is a wonderful way for someone to learn a piece of technology in depth.

But I have to wonder if you actually had anyone (else!) successfully _use_ this to further their understanding of git?

Generally, for me, it's either myself doing the exercise unguided, reading the documentation on internals, or reading the original source code. So I am certain it was a huge benefit for you, but it's more of a question on the approach being used with "students" and how successful would it be?

[nikital]

I've seen people's Git skills improve after I taught them Git internals, but I taught them in a standard lecture format.

I didn't try teaching Git internals using code before, but I hypothesized it would be a good idea, and here is the result :) I'm curious about its effectiveness as well.

[necovek]

Then kudos on the effort for the experiment: not sure how I can best track the success of this initiative of yours, but best of luck regardless!