gogit

gogit

Implementation of git internal commands in Go language.

This project is part of a learning exercise to implement a subset of "git" commands. It can be used to create and maintain git objects, such as blobs, trees, commits, references and tags.

Video with explanation

This video is a supplemental tech-talk recording explaining the internals of "git" (Delievered at Nutanix, Inc, 2020)

Supported commands

gogit - the stupid content tracker

usage: gogit <command> [<args>]
Valid commands:
  init           Create an empty Git repository
  hash-object    Compute object ID and optionally creates a blob from a file
  cat-file       Provide content or type and size information for repository objects
  ls-tree        List the contents of a tree object
  mktree         Build a tree-object from ls-tree formatted text
  checkout       restore working tree files
  commit-tree    Create a new commit object
  log            Shows the commit logs
  show-ref       List references in a local repository
  update-ref     Update the object name stored in a ref safely
  rev-parse      Parse a given git identifier

Use "gogit <command> --help" for help on a specific command

Installation

go get github.com/ssrathi/gogit

Contributing

Contributions are most welcome! Please create a new issue and link your PR to it.