A simple tool for tracking changes to your files.
Zig employs the same underlying storage concepts as git but provides a much easier command line interface.
- Secure commits using gpg
- Simple command line interface
- Scriptable via JSON output
At the risk of scaring potential useres away, it's critical to note that Zig is not ready for production use. It's entirely possible the object storage format may change as well as the command line interface. That said, if you're interested in contributing or even just critizing, shoot me a tweet or DM.
For now, you'll need to be running macOS and (probably) Xcode 8 or higher.
git clone https://github.com/mgadda/zig.git
cd zig
xcodebuild
These tools must be installed and present in your path.
- jq 1.4 or higher
- A recent version of GnuPG
If all goes well, zig will be placed in your ~/bin directory, which is hopefully in your shell's $PATH.
Initialize repository: zig init
Save your changes: zig snapshot
View a history of changes: zig log
View files which have changed since last snapshot: zig status
Ignore a file, directory or glob: zig ignore [filename]
Create a branch: zig branch [name]
Create a tag: zig tag [name] [branch]|[commit-id]|[tag]|HEAD
Checkout a commit or branch: zig checkout [commit]|[branch]
View object from database:: zig cat commit|tree|blob [object-id] [--json]
View raw object data from database: zig rawcat [object-id] | hexdump
Resolve a string into a commit: zig resolve [branch]|[commit-id]|[tag]|HEAD
Store a file or tree of files in the database: zig hash [file]|[directory]