Let's create a new git client in rust!

The original tutorial is written in python by Thibault Polge. In this repo I'm going to port it to rust.

Let's get started

Read at gitbook. Or here :)

Table of contents

Lets' start

• Install rust
• Create the project structure

Git init command

• Implement git init Command
• Create a GitConfig struct
• Create a GitRepository struct
• Refactor!
• Implement GitRepository::create
• Let's add some integration tests
• A better approach to handling errors
• Add find function to GitRepository
• Finish init command implementation

Git cat-file command

• Create a git object module
• Add BlobObject
• Add ObjectParseError
• Implement read function
• Update argument parser
• Finish cat-file command implementation
• The hash-object command

Refactor

• Split error types
• Split git_object module
• Add SerializedGitObject
• Add CompressedGitObject
• Move read and write objects to repository module
• Change GitObject to an enum
• Move each git object to separate file

Reading commit history

• Parsing commits
• Add log command
• A few more refactors and fixes
• Start parsing tree objects
• Add ls-tree
• Add checkout command