gitsplorer

Gitsplorer is a read-only Git repository explorer. It is more or less equivalent to a read-only version of git checkout $commit_hash, except it doesn’t do any writes to disk.

Use

Gitsplorer requires Python 3, libfuse and libgit2. Create a virtual environment and install its dependencies:

$ python -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the program with:

./main.py [OPTION...] ROOT MOUNTPOINT

OPTIONS:

    --commit HASH       Commit to check out
    --help              Print help and exit

ROOT is the Git repository you would like to look at. MOUNTPOINT is a directory where it should be mounted.

By default the program mounts the current HEAD reference. It is more interesting to pass a --commit hash to the program, upon which it will show the state of the repository at that commit.

Possible applications

• Look at the state of a repository at a given commit.

• Run static analysis at various points in the history of a repository in parallel without writing to disk.

• Patch the program to allow writes to files that aren’t in the repository, or perform all writes to a user-specified directory, and run builds of a repository at various points in its history.

Bugs

Yes. Patches welcome.