forge_lib_git

Git

Library of Git targets for Forge.

Introduction

These controllers implement the Git operations against world objects:

• clone (creates Repo object)
• checkout (creates/updates Worktree object + Unixfs working directory object)
• stage (i.e. git add) (updates Worktree from Working directory object)
• commit (updates Repo object from Worktree object)

This is done with the following World object types:

• Repo: git repository
• Worktree: information about a workdir
• Workdir (Unixfs): working directory with unixfs

The workdir can be mounted with a link to another Unixfs tree to implement "checking out" the git repository somewhere.

The fuse mount could be configured to use the Worktree (and Repo) to also implement a virtual ".git" tree so that the standard Git client operations can be mapped into the block-graph backed Git repository.