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Name

gitfs – file server for git scm
 

Synopsis

mount {gitfs srcdir}
[
-m mountpoint

]
[
-c configfile

]
[
-h repository

]
 

Description

gitfs

is a file server that represents git repository. Git commands are executed by writing them into the
ctl

file. Result of a command is stored in the
data

file.

There’s no "interactive" mode for
git-commit.

Commit message should be written to
ctl

file,
or another file.

git-add

command doesn’t have interactive mode yet.

Objects located in objects can be read as ordinary files. Results are the same
as
git-show

command is executed.
 

Options

-m mountpoint

Mountpoint is point where to mount file server. By default it mounts to /n/git.

-c configfile

Config file that can contain settings for repository.

-h repository

Path to repository. By default it searches for .git directory in the path
from current directory upto the /.

 

Hierarchy

/log

File that contains log. If you want to use options for git-log
you can write options to ctl file and get results from data file.
This file contains unfiltered log of the repository, i.e. it’s the same
what git-log does by default.

/tags

Directory, which contains tags.

/config

Repository specific configurations are stored in this file.

/exclude

File that contains patterns of file names to exclude from
git-add.

/objects/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]

This directory object store associated with the repository. Each subdirectory contains objects(blobs, tags, trees, commits)
of the repository.

/files/*

This directory contains the files from the srcdir.

/ctl

File that’s used for operating with git. Commands can be send are: commit, gc, add, branch, reset, status, checkout, merge, rm.

/data

Results of executed commands in the
ctl

file are stored here.      

 

Examples

Mount git repository and read the unfiltered log file.

mount {gitfs dir} mntpt
cat mntpt/log
unmount mntpt   

The same as above but with filtering and getting log for the last 2 weeks

echo ‘log —since=2 weeks ago’ > ctl
cat git_repo/data
 

Source

 

See also

 

Bugs