# Garden
Garden grows and cultivates collections of Git trees.
Garden helps you define development workflows that operate over collections of
self-contained and inter-dependent Git worktrees.
## Code Status
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Garden is actively maintained and its current features are stable.
Garden's core functionality is feature-complete and `v1.0.0` will be released in 2023.
## Documentation
Read the [Garden User Guide](https://garden-rs.gitlab.io)
for details on how to use and configure Garden.
Read the [Garden API Documentation](https://docs.rs/garden-tools/)
for details on how to use the Garden APIs for developing Garden.
## Features
Garden aids in common development setup steps such as setting environment
variables, configuring search paths, and creating arbitrary groupings of
repositories for development.
* Bootstrap Git-based development environments from source.
* Define arbitrary collections of Git repositories for running commands.
* Define environment variables scoped to specific projects or trees.
* Define custom commands and workflows in a simple declarative config file.
* Develop, build and test interdependent projects in self-contained sandboxes.
* Configured using simple yet featureful YAML configuration files.
## Acknowledgements
The structure and content of the README and documentation was heavily inspired
by the the [mdbook](https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook) documentation.
The [yaml-rust parser used by Garden](https://github.com/davvid/yaml-rust)
is [@davvid](https://github.com/davvid)'s fork of the
[original yaml-rust](https://github.com/chyh1990/yaml-rust) crate by
[@chyh1990](https://github.com/chyh1990).