# chrisdickinson/git-rs

git, implemented in rust, for fun and education :crab:

Repository: https://github.com/chrisdickinson/git-rs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/git-rs
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-08-02T22:44:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2811, "days_push": 1127, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1378, forks 34 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:33.535252+00:00)

## What it is
An educational reimplementation of Git's core internals in Rust, covering loose and packed object reading, refs, commit graph walking, and tree traversal. It is a learning project rather than a production-ready Git client, with the author pointing users to gitoxide for real-world use.

## Use cases
- learn how git stores objects internally
- read git packfiles in rust
- walk a git commit history programmatically
- understand how git delta compression works
- study a rust implementation of git
- parse git refs and signatures

## When to choose
- you want to learn git internals by reading or hacking on source code
- you need a small, readable rust codebase demonstrating packfile and object storage formats
- you want a simple git log walker for experimentation

## When to avoid
- you need a complete, production-ready git implementation in rust (use gitoxide instead)
- you need network protocol support, index writing, or object writing (unimplemented)
- you need a stable, documented library API for other projects

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: experimental
- function: version-control, parser, developer-tools
- domain: version-control, developer-tools, parsers, education
- platform: rust, cross-platform, cli
- tags: git-implementation, educational, packfile, commit-graph, learning-project

## Member repositories
- chrisdickinson/git-rs (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:33.535252+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:40:21.787001+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/chrisdickinson/git-rs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:33.535252+00:00, sha 3588515ca321)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.