AkhilGNair / gittle

Exploring a small subset of git features

Gittle

A simple reimplementation of basic `git` commands

This repo is to illustrate the following commands

• git add
• git commit
• git switch
• git log

Usage

Move into a project repo and run gittle init.

> gittle init
Creating gittle repo at '/home/akhil/repos/gittle-project'

This will make a minimal gittle repo

> tree -a .gittle
.gittle
├── HEAD
└── store

Add some basic project files

mkdir src .hidden
echo "print('hi')" > src/__init__.py
echo "# I'm a hidden file" > .hidden/hidden.txt
echo "akhil:[e-mail]" > .names

Use gittle add to stage files

> gittle add
? Which files do you want to stage? (Use arrow keys to move, <space> to select, <a> to toggle, <i> to invert)
 » ○ .names
   ○ .hidden/hidden.txt
   ○ src/__init__.py

> gittle add
? Which files do you want to stage? done (2 selections)
Updated staging area

Run gittle add again to amend the staging area.

Use gittle commit to snapshot the repo state to the store

> gittle commit
Wrote the snapshot (commit) called '58bfd9f6' to the gittle store

Use gittle cat-object to explore the store

> gittle cat-object 6a008743
File:
src/__init__.py

Content:
print('hi')

> gittle cat-object 58bfd9f6
Parents:
Root commit

Hashes:
 - 6a008743
 - 9be66eb4