Crate gix_odb

Git stores all of its data as Objects, which are data along with a hash over all data. Thus it’s an object store indexed by the signature of data itself with inherent deduplication: the same data will have the same hash, and thus occupy the same space within the store.

There is only one all-round object store, also known as the Store, as it supports everything most of what git has to offer.

• loose object reading and writing
• access to packed objects
• multiple loose objects and pack locations as gathered from alternates files.

Feature Flags

• serde — Data structures implement serde::Serialize and serde::Deserialize.

Re-exports

• pub use gix_pack as pack;

Modules

• alternate
  A file with directories of other git object databases to use when reading objects.
• cache
• find
• loose
  An object database storing each object in a zlib compressed file with its hash in the path
• memory
• store
  The standard object store which should fit all needs.

Structs

• Cache
  A way to access objects along with pre-configured thread-local caches for packed base objects as well as objects themselves.
• Sink
  It can optionally compress the content, similarly to what would happen when using a loose::Store.
• Store
  The object store for use in any applications with support for auto-updates in the light of changes to the object database.

Traits

• Header
  A way to obtain object properties without fully decoding it.
• HeaderExt
  An extension trait with convenience functions.

Functions

• at
  Create a new cached handle to the object store.
• at_opts
  Create a new cached handle to the object store with support for additional options.
• sink
  Create a new Sink with compression disabled.

Type Aliases

• Handle
  A thread-local handle to access any object.
• HandleArc
  A thread-local handle to access any object, but thread-safe and independent of the actual type of OwnShared or feature toggles in gix-features.