Capture snapshots of your work as memorable milestones by saving selected commits from Git.
As developers grow familiar with Git, there’s often a need to revisit old solutions for reuse in new projects. Different approaches have emerged to address this, such as:
- Saving as separate projects in the cloud and downloading them when needed;
- Copying the full project to another location and later struggling to find which files were changed to solve a problem;
- Using Gists, which are limited to single files and algorithms, making it difficult to track the full history of a functionality;
- Advanced Git users create custom commands to store files from a commit as a zip file in a specific location.
The objective of this project is to provide a standardized way to store code snapshots, or "memories," by grouping commits that are related to a particular functionality within a git-memory repository structure.
Using the command line, similar to Git, you can perform the following operations:
- Set a folder as the location to store your "memories" (let's call it
Memories). - When working on a specific project, easily select commits related to a particular functionality.
- Run a command like
git memory save "New Functionality", which will create a folder insideMemoriescontaining the content of the selected commits. - A new Git repository will be initialized inside
Memories/New Functionality, capturing all the files involved in the commits. - The folder will also include an
index.htmlfile to navigate through the commit changes and visualize the step-by-step creation of the functionality, in the original order.
- Standardized structure for storing Git "memories" (snapshots of your commits).
- Easy selection of related commits to capture a specific functionality.
- Automatically generates a new Git repository for each functionality.
- Visual commit history accessible through a generated HTML file.
This project is written in C#, leveraging the libgit2sharp library to manipulate Git repositories programmatically.