elfshaker/elfshaker
elfshaker stores binary objects efficiently observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
64/100
- Activity 91
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 1784
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 56
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2336 stars · 49 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
elfshaker is a high-performance CLI version control system written in Rust, fine-tuned for storing binary files. It packs directory snapshots into highly-compressed pack files with fast on-demand extraction, achieving extreme compression ratios on sets of similar binaries.
Use cases
- store many similar binary builds with minimal disk space
- quickly extract any revision of a compiler build for bisection
- snapshot and restore object files from incremental builds
- compress thousands of versions of executables into small pack files
- speed up regression bisection across large build histories
When to choose
- you need to store many similar binary files or build artifacts efficiently
- you want fast (seconds) access to arbitrary snapshots of large binary sets
- you're bisecting builds of large projects like LLVM
- deduplication of mostly-unchanged files dominates your storage
When to avoid
- you need general-purpose source code version control with branching and merging
- your files are mostly unique with little shared content
- you need a GUI or hosted collaboration workflow
- your data changes wholesale between versions so deltas are large
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
version-control compression file-system cli developer-tools version-control files performance windows rust cli binary-storage executable-packing deduplication snapshot-storage bisection linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/elfshaker/elfshaker · fetched 2026-08-28 · 880dd880196e
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| elfshaker/elfshaker | main | 64 |
For agents
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