git-index

This tool takes a list of paths and checks them for git repositories. It writes to a sqlite database a table of repositories found, indexed by both the first and the second commit hashes on the repository. The rationale is that these first couple of commits are unlikely to ever change as the result of a rebase, and thus make a fairly reliable fingerprint of the identity of the repository. The motivation behind this tool is for use with Serf and the serf-hander gem or the serf-handler.cr crystal implementation to power a slick, simple deployment manger utizing a git repo and deploy hooks at the underlying source and trigger.

Building It

If you have crystal installed on your system, you can build the binary for git-index with:

shards build -p -s -t --release

If you want to build a statically linked binary (which is better for distribution to other systems):

shards build -p -s -t --release --static

In either case, the compiled binary will be found as bin/git-index.

Usage

git-index /gluster/htdocs/site.doc.com

Add the given directory to the index.

git-index -l

List all of the indexed hashes and their directories

git-index -q d950c4bbe672fe02e36009d71d88ef4ab754fa91

Perform a lookup in the index to see if that has code matches a known repository, and returns the matches, one per line.

git-index -h

See all options.