git-db¶ ↑

CouchDB-based git server, avoids the filesystem. (VERY ALPHA)

• Install CouchDB on localhost, and start it up.

• Install the gem

$ gem install ddollar-git-db

• Create a git user. (Name can be whatever you like)

• Set a home directory for the user.

• Set up the git user’s authorized_keys2 file: (modify the command to match your gem particulars)

# $HOME/git/.ssh/authorized_keys2
command="/usr/bin/git-db",no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-pty <your ssh public key>

• Add your localhost as a remote to an existing project and push

$ git remote add test-git-db git@localhost:my-repo.git
$ git push test-git-db master

• Go look at the data in CouchDB

http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils/database.html?gitdb-my-repo

• Clone your repository somewhere else and examine it

$ git clone git@localhost:my-repo.git /tmp/my-repo

• Please report any problems on the issue tracker.

• Continuous Integration - runcoderun.com/ddollar/git-db

• Documentation - rdoc.info/projects/ddollar/git-db

• Tests

• Refactor and clean up (experimenting with binary protocols can make things a bit messy)

• Authentication tie-in

• Never look at a raw git pack file again

• Fork the project.

• Make your feature addition or bug fix.

• Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history.

• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright © 2009 David Dollar. See LICENSE for details.