tagga 0.0.0

A new idea for a hierarchy-less filesystem interface
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# Tagga

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Originially file systems did not have any hierarchy.
All Files were just kept in a plain list.
Some people found that limiting and created trees of folders.
Other people considered files to be the wrong abstraction and used databases instead.

Tagga is a bit of a middle ground.
Instead of sorting files into a tree of folders,
    they are tagged with a number of attributes.
For retrieval they can be filtered,
    much like a SELECT ... WHERE statement does.

This idea is backwards-compatible,
    as the path can just be an tag.

Right now its just a prototype to explore the ideas viability.
It uses a database for storing the tags, and a folder to store the files.

In the future it would be nice to have an in-kernel implementation.
It would then need to store the tags in the file system (hard)
    and the files would just become inodes (easy)

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# Contributing
Please symlink the hooks to your local .git/hooks/ directory to run some automatic checks before committing.

    ln -s ../../hooks/pre-commit .git/hooks/

Please install rustfmt and cargo-sync-readme so these checks can be run.

    rustup component add rustfmt
    cargo install cargo-sync-readme

Please execute `cargo-sync-readme` when you change the top-level-documentation.
Please run `cargo fmt` whenever you change code. If possible configure your editor to do so for you.