git: Git Implementation in Rust

A Rust implementation of Git, following the Write Yourself a Git tutorial.

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/EdwardJiazhenTan/git.git
cd git
cargo build
cargo run -- --help

Usage

# Initialize a new repository
cargo run -- init [path]

# Show repository status (if in a git repo)
cargo run

Implementation Progress

• init - Initialize a new repository
• add - Add files to staging area
• cat-file - Display object contents
• check-ignore - Check ignore rules
• checkout - Checkout commit to working tree
• commit - Record changes to repository
• hash-object - Compute object hash
• log - Show commit history
• ls-files - List files in index
• ls-tree - List tree contents
• rev-parse - Parse revision identifiers
• rm - Remove files from working tree and index
• show-ref - List references
• status - Show working tree status
• tag - Create and list tags

Dependencies

• clap - Command line argument parsing
• anyhow - Error handling
• configparser - Git config file parsing