devset-core 0.5.3

versioned file bundles, applied to a directory and updated without losing local edits.
Documentation

devset-core

The library behind devset: versioned file bundles, applied to a directory and updated without losing local edits. The devset command line, in bin/devset-cli, reads arguments and prints reports; everything else is here.

The Chain

Every operation is a prefix of one chain, and only its last step writes:

Step Gives What it does
resolve Resolved reads the target's layers and composes them
survey Survey compares every managed path with its record and disk
plan Plan decides what happens to each path, merging edits
commit the steps writes the files, and the state last

devset status stops after survey, and devset apply --dry-run after plan.

Use

cargo add devset-core

use devset_core::source::Source;
use devset_core::{Cache, Mode, Refresh, Target, commit, plan, resolve, survey};

let mut target = Target::open_or_new(&root.join("repo"))?;
target.add_layer(Source::Dir("../base".into()))?;

let resolved = resolve(&target, &Cache::user()?, Refresh::None)?;
let survey = survey(resolved, &target)?;
let plan = plan(survey, Mode::Apply, &target)?;
commit(plan, &target)?;

The crate's documentation, on docs.rs, runs this example as a test, and covers updating, conflicts and taking an update back.

Stability

devset-core is versioned with devset, and published to crates.io with every release. Its public API is part of what devset promises: a change that breaks it is a breaking change to devset.

License

MIT, as the rest of devset: see LICENSE.