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lethe README
lethe
is a Python module for git-based snapshotting.
lethe
is intended as a mechanism for creating commits outside
the standard git branching/tagging workflows. It is meant to enable
additional use-cases without disrupting the standard workflows.
Use cases include:
- Short-lived:
- On-disk undo log
- Syncing work-in-progress between computers before it's ready
- Long-lived:
- lab notebook: Recording the code / configuration state that resulted in a given output
- incremental backup: Space-efficient time-based backups of a codebase
Usage
Creating a commit from the command line
$ cd path/to/repo
$ lethe
122d058e375274a186c407f28602c3b14a2cab95
This effectively snapshots the current state of the repository (as would be seen by
git add --all
) and creates a new commit (122d058e375274a186c407f28602c3b14a2cab95
)
which points to it. The current branch and index are not changed.
Flags:
-p my_parent_ref
is used to provide "parent" refs which become the parents of the created commit. If a parent ref is a symbolic ref, both the provided ref and the ref it points to are used as parents. If not present, defaults to-p HEAD
.-t ref/lethe/my_target_ref
is used to provide "target" refs which will be created/updated to point to the created commit. If not present, defaults to adding an entry of the form-t refs/lethe/my_branch
for each parent ref of the formrefs/heads/my_branch
, and-t refs/lethe/my/refpath
for non-head refs of the formrefs/my/refpath
. All provided parent refs and any dereferenced parent refs are used to generate default target refs. If any of the target refs already exist, the commits they point to become parents of the created commit.-m "my message"
sets the commit message for the snapshot. By default, "snapshot " is used.-r path/to/repo
can be provided to specify a repository outside of the current working directory.
$ cd path/to/repo
$ git branch
* master
$ lethe
is equivalent to
lethe -r path/to/repo -p HEAD
or
lethe -r path/to/repo -p HEAD -p refs/heads/master -t refs/lethe/HEAD -t refs/lethe/master
Creating a commit programmatically
import lethe
REPO = '/path/to/repo'
commit_sha = lethe.snap(cwd=REPO)
tree_sha = lethe.get_tree(commit_sha, cwd=REPO)
print('Created new commit with hash ' + commit_sha + ' aka refs/lethe/HEAD')
print('Code (tree) state is ' + tree_sha)
Installation
Requirements:
- python 3 (written and tested with 3.6)
- git (accessible on the system
PATH
)
Install with pip:
pip3 install lethe