Introduction

This is a Sinatra application that provides restful git. It’s intended to be used to store versions of database fields, but you could do anything with it.

Here’s how I’m using it:

• I have several web apps that need versioning for user-generated content
• Each repository is mapped to a user in my client applications
• Each repository holds database fields for models. If you checked out a copy, you’d see things like 1_field_name where 1 maps to a database table ID
• Users can switch back to any version of a document
• The repository is deleted if the user leaves the service

Configuration

Create a config.yml file in the same location as this README that specifies the location for the repositories:

path:
  tmp/

Client Library

I’ve written a client library that includes a Rails ActiveRecord plugin here:

gitlocker-client