This is a distribted version control system similar to git.

My motivation behind it to learn more about internals of Git, and also advance my knowledge and practice writing code in C/C++ language.

The architecture i followed to bild this version control system is very much simailar to git. In this architecture every file is treated as BLOB and every directory is treated as a TREE a tree may conatin either one or more blobs and it may also contain another tree. First when the command <executable> init is being run it will create a folder named .jh this folder contains different information about the repository. When the programmer runs <executable> commit "<commit-message>" it first compresses the blob data and creates a unique hash id after which the compressed data is stored in .jh/objects folder, similarly tree is also compreesed conationg information like blob name, blob hash is stored in .jh/objects. For further inqiry please visit git internals.

In Debian/Linux bash

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev zlib1g-dev

1. First create the exectable by rnning the command make

2. After running make command rn command make clean to delete *.o(object files) files

3. After exectable has been created, run command <executable> init this command Initializes the repository

4. After Initializing the repository run command <executable> commit "<commit-message>" to commit changes to the repository.

5. Run command <executable> log to see all the commits with its hashes

6. To restore your working directory to different commit run command <executable> restore <hash>.

1. <executable> hash-object <filename> this command compresses the files using zlib compression and then creates hash of that compressed data

2. <executable> cat-file <hash> to see contains of file which is stored in .jh/objects

3. <executable> ls-tree <folderpath> -w to create a tree object

This program is written in C/C++ and tested in Debian/Linux before running it in windows or any other operating you may have to change some code 🔧. Even though i tried my best to write croos-platform code Thanks