Git CLI Tool In Rust

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Installation
3. Basic Usage
4. Soon

Introduction

Trying to write git from scratch in Rust , implementing almost the same functionality as the original in an attempt to learn the internals of git to use it better.

refrences that helped during this process: freecodecamp visual guide to git internals

so far ive implemented :

• init initialize an empty repo in the desired folder; creating HEAD,objects/ and refs/.
• hash-object hash a blob file , with the option to write to git/objects.
• cat-file write the contents of a compressed blob.
• ls-tree write the contents of a git tree object with objects to recurse,write namesonly, etc...
• write-tree write the current tree of your working directory with all the folders and files (no staging area yet).

Installation

this project is still in development , so you will have to clone this repo and compile it yourself. for convenience you will find a small script called rusty-git.sh that will compile and run for you.

or you can build it manually:

cargo build --release

Basic Usage

rusty-git.sh [COMMAND] [OPTION]...[FILE]...

-help menu:

    ./rusty-git.sh --help

-initialize an empty repo:

    ./rusty-git.sh init .

or

    ./rusty-git.sh init my-new-project-directory

-hash a file and store it in your objectsd dir :

    ./rusty-git.sh hash-object -w file.txt