Git-backup

This library provides several helpers to implement a backup system on top of git.

Dependencies

• git (>= 1.5) (binary)
• s (emacs library)

Public functions documentation

See the git-backup.el internal documentation to get more details.

git-backup-version-file

Records a file version in backup folder.

git-backup-list-file-change-time

Returns an assoc list for a given file with the commit id as key and a string rendered using git log pretty=format:<format-string> with format-string a format string supported by git log.

git-backup-remove-file-backups

Removes a file from the backup storage.

git-backup-open-in-new-buffer

Opens a backup in a new buffer using a commit id given by git-backup-list-file-change-time and a filename.

git-backup-replace-current-buffer

Replaces the current buffer with the content of the buffer found using a commit id given by git-backup-list-file-change-time and a filename.

git-backup-create-ediff

Opens a backup with ediff using a commit id given by git-backup-list-file-change-time and a filename.

git-backup-clean-repository

Runs manually git gc to reduce the size of the storage.

Tests

First you need to install cask :

curl -fsSkL https://raw.github.com/cask/cask/master/go | python

Add cask to your path :

export PATH=$PATH:/home/YOUR_USERNAME/.cask/bin

Download dependencies using cask :

make downloads

Run tests :

make test