I made my own Git
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I made my own Git
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Re: I made my own Git
#2>The hardest part about this project was actually just parsing.
How about using sqlite for this? Then you wouldn't need to parse anything, just read/update tables. Fast indexing out of the box, too.
Re: I made my own Git
#3>The hardest part about this project was actually just parsing. How about using sqlite for this? Then you wouldn't need to parse anything, just read/update tables. Fast indexing out of the box, too.
that would be what https://fossil-scm.org/ is
Re: I made my own Git
#4>The hardest part about this project was actually just parsing. How about using sqlite for this? Then you wouldn't need to parse anything, just read/update tables. Fast indexing out of the box, too.
that would be what https://fossil-scm.org/ is
Very interesting. Looks like fossil has made some unique design choices that differ from git[0]. Has anyone here used it? I'd love to hear how it compares.
[0] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki#...
Re: I made my own Git
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
that would be what https://fossil-scm.org/ is
Very interesting. Looks like fossil has made some unique design choices that differ from git[0]. Has anyone here used it? I'd love to hear how it compares. [0] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki#...
Used it on and off mainly to check it out, but always in a personal/experimental capacity. Never managed to convince any teams to give it a try, mostly because git don't tend to get in the way, so hard to justify to learn something completely new.
I really enjoy how local-first it is, as someone who sometimes work without internet connection. That the data around "work" is part of the SCM as well, not just the code, makes a lot of sense to me at a high-level, and many times I wish git worked the same...
Re: I made my own Git
#6I was also playing around with the ".git" directory - ended up writing:
"What's inside .git ?" - https://prakharpratyush.com/blog/7/
Re: I made my own Git
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very interesting. Looks like fossil has made some unique design choices that differ from git[0]. Has anyone here used it? I'd love to hear how it compares. [0] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki#...
Used it on and off mainly to check it out, but always in a personal/experimental capacity. Never managed to convince any teams to give it a try, mostly because git don't tend to get in the way, so hard to justify to learn something completely new. I really enjoy how local-first it is, as someone who sometimes work without internet connection. That the data around "work" is part of the SCM as well, not just the code,…
I mean, git is just as "local-first" (a git repo is just a directory after all), and the standard git-toolchain includes a server, so...
But yeah, fossil is interesting, and it's a crying shame its not more well known, for the exact reasons you point out.
Re: I made my own Git
#8Zstd dictionary compression is essentially how Meta's Mercurial fork (Sapling VCS) stores blobs https://sapling-scm.com/docs/dev/internals/zstdelta. The source code is available in GitHub if folks want to study the tradeoffs vs git delta-compressed packfiles.
I think theoratically, Git delta-compression is still a lot more optimized for smaller repos. But for bigger repos where sharding storaged is required, path-based delta dictionary compression does much better. Git recently (in the last 1 year) got something called "path-walk" which is fairly similar though.
Re: I made my own Git
#9Great writeup! It's always fun to learn the details of the tools we use daily.
For others, I highly recommend Git from the Bottom Up[1]. It is a very well-written piece on internal data structures and does a great job of demystifying the opaque git commands that most beginners blindly follow. Best thing you'll learn in 20ish minutes.
Re: I made my own Git
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
that would be what https://fossil-scm.org/ is
Very interesting. Looks like fossil has made some unique design choices that differ from git[0]. Has anyone here used it? I'd love to hear how it compares. [0] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki#...
I use Fossil extensively, but only for personal projects. There are specific design conditions, such as no rebasing [0], and overall, it is simpler yet more useful to me. However, I think Fossil is better suited for projects governed under the cathedral model than the bazaar model. It's great for self-hosting, and the web UI is excellent not only for version control, but also for managing a software development project. However, if you want a low barrier to integrating contributions, Fossil is not as good as the various Git forges out there. You have to either receive patches or Fossil bundles via email or forum, or onboard/register contributors as developers with quite wide repo permissions.
[0]: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm.md