Crate weave

Implement Weave deltas, inspired by SCCS.

Although not much remains of the SCCS revision control system, it's "weave" delta format turns out to be a good way of representing multiple versions of data that differ only in parts.

This package implements a weave-based storage of "plain text", where plain text consists of lines of UTF-8 printable characters separated by a newline.

The format is similar to SCCS, but with no constraints to keep what are relatively poor design decisions from SCCS, such as putting a checksum at the top of the file, and using limited-sized field for values such as the number of lines in a file, or the use of 2-digit years. However, the main body of the weaved file, that which describes inserts and deletes is the same, and allows us to test this version by comparing with the storage of sccs.

Writing an initial weave works as a regular file writer. The file itself has a small amount of surrounding meta-data, but is otherwise mostly just the contents of the initial file.

Adding a delta to a weave file requires extracting a base version that the delta will be made against (the base does not need to be the tip version, allowing for branches). This crate will need to make several temporary files.

Structs

DeltaInfo	Information about a single delta.
DeltaWriter	A DeltaWriter is used to write a new delta. Data should be written to the writer, and then the close method called to update the weave file with the new delta.
Header	The header placed at the beginning of the each weave file.
NewWeave	A builder for a new weave file. The data should be written as a writer. Closing the weaver will finish up the write and move the new file into place. If the weaver is just dropped, the file will not be moved into place.
NullSink	A null sink that does nothing, useful for parsing the header.
Parser	A Parser is used to process a weave file, extracting either everything, or only a specific delta.
SimpleNaming	The SimpleNaming is a NamingConvention that has a basename, with the main file having a specified extension, the backup file having a ".bak" extension, and the temp files using a numbered extension starting with ".0". If the names are intended to be compressed, a ".gz" suffix can also be added.
WriterInfo	Something we can write into, that remembers its name. The writer is boxed because the writer may be compressed.

Traits

NamingConvention

A naming convention provides utilities needed to find the involved files, and construct temporary files as part of writing the new weave. The underlying object should keep the path and base name.

Sink

A Sink is a place that a parsed weave can be sent to. The insert/delete/end commands match those in the weave file, and plain are the lines of data. With each plain is a flag indicating if that line should be included in the output (all lines are called, so that updates can use this same code). All methods return a result, with the Err value stopping the parse. Note that the default implementations just return success, and ignore the result.

Functions

get_last_delta	Retrieve the last delta in the weave file. Will panic if the weave file is malformed and contains no revisions.
read_header	Read the header from a weave file.

Type Definitions

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Result