GitFS

Name

gitfs – file server for git scm
 

Synopsis

mount {gitfs srcdir}
[
-m mountpoint

]
[
-c configfile

]
[
-h repository

]
 

Description

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.

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