A PlayGround To Learn The Working Of VCS By Developing One Myself
I wanted to learn how version control system works behind the scenes and decided the best way would be to actually make a minimal one to understand the working.
In this project I've implemented basic functions of git following the tutorial provided at [behhoyt.com[(https://benhoyt.com/writings/pygit/).
It was a learning experience in terms of both technical skills and confidence: it was eye-opening that how easy the concepts are behind an application such as version control system which is used almost all the time; in every single project.
The usability of a project is independent of it's complexity.
Since my main aim was learning the behind the scene concepts, I made the bare bone and this is almost non-functional except for learning purposes.
It implements the below functions:
usage: __main__.py [-h] command ...
positional arguments:
command
add add file(s) to index
cat-file display contents of object
commit commit current state of index to master branch
diff show diff of files changed (between index and working copy
hash-object
hash contents of given path (and optionally write to object
store)
init initialize a new repo
ls-files list all files in index
push push master branch to given git server url
status show status of working copy
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exitThis project is a good to learn the working of version control system and implement new features. One is also welcome to improve the current code, as well as Command line interface.
The code has been well commented with docstrings explaining all the inputs, outputs and side-effects of a method.
[HELP] A setup.py file is highly needed to make pygit work across system.