Git like version control without the location based dependencies (e.g. the .git directory)

[flyingzumwalt]

This is a popular topic here on discourse. Here are two of the existing threads, which have lots of useful info that you could explore.

Implementing a git-inspired version graph directly in ipfs:

History + Versioning of documents (IPFS/IPNS)

First, let me explain my use case : Assume that I want to deal with documents (which are stored in a folder for example). So, I add my documents in IPFS, then I publish the hash to IPNS. In this case, the new version of my documents will be reachable through IPNS, and the previous still remains in IPFS but I can’t retrieve it using my IPNS PeerID. So, what I want to do is to keep tracking all previous versions to be able to return to a previous version (such as Git allows you to do it). My …

Adding git repositories to ipfs and using IPLD to resolve that content on IPFS using the git commit hashes:

Git on IPFS - Links and References

The topic of putting git commits onto IPFS comes up often. Let’s use this thread to help people find related projects and tools. For example: GitHub - ipfs-shipyard/git-remote-ipld GitHub - larsks/git-remote-ipfs (dormant since 2015 but still cool) The exciting thing about git-remote-ipld is that it uses IPLD, which is a data model (and library) that lets you parse hash-linked data structures like git repositories, traverse them, and address items within them using their native data format.…