andyyu2004 / bit

A clone of a subset of git

bit

A fully git-compliant implementation that currently implements a small subset of git commands.

Wouldn't recommend using this to manipulate your valued repositories yet!

Currently implements the following commands with a subset of the same options as git.

• bit init
• bit add
• bit branch
• bit cat-file
• bit checkout
• bit commit-tree
• bit commit
• bit config
• bit diff
• bit hash-object
• bit log
• bit ls-files
• bit merge-base
• bit reset
• bit rev-list
• bit status
• bit switch
• bit write-tree

Run commands and subcommands with the --help flag to see all available options.

Installation

Install the latest rust nightly using rustup.

Clone this repository and build using cargo.

The following should all be performed from within the cloned directory.

cargo b --release

To run, you can either use cargo as above cargo r --release -- [<bit args>...]. Alternatively, you can install bit locally as a binary using cargo install --path bit and run as bit <args>.

It is strongly recommended to use delta as the git pager to produce readable diffs.

# .gitconfig
[core]
    pager = delta

Warning

bit does not currently support windows as it uses some Unix specific path apis. Furthermore, even on Unix, there is an assumption that paths are encoded in UTF-8.