How to use

Dialga provides a robust version control system that helps you manage and track changes in your projects effectively, using familiar Git-like commands and workflows.

Add to path

$ export PATH="<path to dialga binary>:$PATH"

refresh your shell profile afterwards, then check if Dialga is ready to use

note: we are assuming dialga is added to $PATH. If not, please add a ./ prefix everytime the binary is called.

$ dialga --version
0.1.0

Initializing a Repository

To start version controlling a project, navigate to your project directory and initialize a Dialga repository:

$ dialga init

This command creates a .dlgx directory where Dialga stores its metadata.

Committing Changes

Dialga doesn't use a staging area, and infact tracks commits through the .commit file.

$ dialga commit <file_name> <commit_message>

Viewing Commit History (to be added)

You can view the commit history to see all previous commits and their messages:

$ dialga history

Restoring changes

Dialga can only restore changes upto the base directory for now. To restore a change, grab the hash of the commit from history.

$ dialga restore <commit_hash>