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git-index
This is a very simple little tool that creates an index of git repositories, keyed by the commit hash codes for the first and second commits in the repository.
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git-index.cr
This tool makes a local database of git repositories, indexed by initial commit hashes.
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Enter git-index. This is a simple Ruby app that maintains a local SQLite database of git repositories, providing a command-line interface to add, list, query, or remove entries.
Enter git-index. This is a simple Ruby app that maintains a local SQLite database of git repositories, providing a command-line interface to add, list, query, or remove entries.
Ruby has a variety of different gems that can be used for database access, with varying levels of abstraction from gems that offer direct low level access to a database, to gems which offer a high level ORM, like ActiveRecord or Sequel, and which typically implement their own mid level abstraction layer.
One of the things that I like about Crystal is that as a compiled language, one can build single binaries for utilities without depending on having the entire installed language at one's disposal. I figured that it might be an interesting exercise to take an hour or two to translate git-index from Ruby to Crystal.