Riel: A Version Control System

Version control system inspired by CRDT (Conflict-Free Resolution Data-Types) concepts

State: Not ready for production yet

Current features:

Adding, commiting, pseudo-random commit hashing, cloning using an https request via a tcp stream

Alpha to-do list (Almost there):

• Config
• Remotes
• Thrust (push), load (pull) from remotes

Beta to-do list:

• Author metadata
• Merging
• CRDT algorithm implemented where possible
• Branching

Before release to-do list:

• Compression, deduplication, misc features...
• Documentation
• Tests
• Benchmarks
• Release

Manual installation for Linux:

• Install Rust
• Clone this repository
• Run make dev or make all in root directory
• In short, git clone https://www.github.com/riel-foundation/riel && cd riel && make dev

Repositories structure as a json:

{
  "name": "repository-name",
  "children": [
    {
      "name": ".riel",
      "children": [{"Internal metadata is not clearly defined yet?" : "No, it isn't"}]
    },
    {
    "name": "folder1",
    "children": [
                  {
                    "name": "helloworld.rs",
                    "children": [],
                    "url": "https://myserver.local/user/repository-name/folder1/helloworld.rs"
                  }
                ],
    "url": null
    },
    {
    "name": "arootfile.txt",
    "children": [],
    "url": "https://myserver.local/user/repository-name/arootfile.txt"
    },
    {
      "name": ".rielignore",
      "children": [],
      "url": "https://myserver.local/user/repository-name/.rielignore"
    }
  ]
}