Grofs - Git Read-Only FS

Simple FUSE implementation that exposes git repository as a file system. It's still in the early development so don't use it in production.

Install

Before build, make sure you have libgit2, fuse2, pkgconf and make (tested with GNU make) installed.

Clone this repository and run make && sudo make install.

Usage

Run grofs <git-repo-root-path> <mount-point> to mount git repository.

Virtualized file system has following structure

/
    commits/
        commit1-sha1/
            tree/
                ... - tree for that commit as if you did git checkout commit1-sha1
            parent - file that contains SHA1 of the parent (no file if no parrent)
        commit2-sha1/
            ...
        ...
        commitn-sha1/
            ...
    blobs/
        blob1-sha1 - contains content for blob blob1-sha1
        blob2-sha1
        ...
        blobn-sha1

Some more rules

• file parent is always of size 40
• files representing blob have their size set to the size of raw blob content
• folders representing commits (like commit1-sha1 in the example above) have commit time as their create and modified time
• every other file system item has grofs start time as create and modified time

Further development

• Possibility to specify remote which is exposed
• More virtualized files/folders like commit author, message, etc.