gitpot is an extensible git implementation library written in pure Go. The project is using
Cobra CLI to get functional CLI capabilties likes parsing commands, flags and parameters for the gitpot cli app.
gitpot is a toy implementation of git written in golang. In it's current state it does not ensure reverse compatibility with git since it doesn't use the exact same compression and storage techniques inside the objects directory of the git.
git is a humongous project with years of development by thousands of contributors, making it challenging for gitpot to implement all the features. However you can still use basic commands like init, add, rm, commit, branch, checkout and status.
It uses roughly the same file structure inside of the .git or .gitpot folder and uses the same schema for vital objects like bolb, tree and commit. However they are stored in the plain text format for easy understanding and debugging and can be switched to any compression format whenever needed.
You can run the below command to get a binary and install gitpot as it is from the current active branch:
go build
After building the binary you can use it in the same way like git.
This will initialize an empty gitpot project by creating .gitpot directory
./gitpot init
This will add the given files to staging area
./gitpot add <files or folders>
This will give information about all the tracked/untracked and staged/unstaged files and folders in the working directroy
./gitpot status
This will commit all the new staged changes in the index in the form of a new commit on the current active branch
./gitpot commit --m "commit message"
This will create a new branch and show all branchnames in case branchname is not passed
./gitpot branch <branchname>
This will checkout to the given branchname and make it active branch
./gitpot checkout <branchname>
Contributions are more than welcome, if you are interested please take a look at the project codebase. A lot of improvements can be done by parallelising a bunch of stuff an optimising disk read-writes.