GitHub - sahib/brig: File synchronization on top of ipfs with git like interface...
source link: https://github.com/sahib/brig
Go to the source link to view the article. You can view the picture content, updated content and better typesetting reading experience. If the link is broken, please click the button below to view the snapshot at that time.
README.md
brig
: Ship your data around the world
Table of Contents
About
brig
is a distributed & secure file synchronization tool with version control.
It is based on IPFS
, written in Go and will feel familiar to git
users.
Key feature highlights:
- Encryption of data in rest and transport + compression on the fly.
- Simplified
git
version control. - Sync algorithm that can handle moved files and empty directories and files.
- Your data does not need to be stored on the device you are currently using.
- FUSE filesystem that feels like a normal (sync) folder.
- No central server at all. Still, central architectures can be build with
brig
. - Simple user identification and discovery with users that look like email addresses.
Also take a look at the documentation for more details.
Installation
If you have a recent version of go
(>= 1.9
) installed, it should be as easy as this:
$ go get -d -v -u github.com/sahib/brig # Download the sources. $ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/sahib/brig # Go to the source directory. $ make # Build the software. $ sudo make install # Install it system-wide (optional)
Please refer to the install docs for more details.
Getting started
...If you want to know, what to do after you can read the Quickstart.
Status
This software is in a beta phase currently. All mentioned features should
work. Things might still change rapdily and there will be no guarantee to
change that until version 1.0.0
. Do not use brig
yet as only storage
for your production data. There are still bugs, but it should be safe enough to
toy around with it quite a bit.
This project has started end of 2015 and has seen many conceptual changes in the meantime. It started out as research project of two computer science students (me and qitta). After writing our master theses on it, it was put down for a few months until I (sahib) picked at up again and currently am trying to push it to usable software.
If you want to open a bug report, just type brig bug
to get a readily filled template for you.
Documentation
All documentation can be found on ReadTheDocs.org.
Donations
I really would like to work more on brig
, but my day job (and the money
that comes with it) forbids that. If you're interested in the development and
would think about supporting me financially, then please contact
me! If you'd like to give me a small & steady
donation, you can always use Liberapay:
Thank you!
Focus
brig
tries to focus on being up conceptually simple, by hiding a lot of
complicated details regarding storage and security. Therefore I hope the end
result is easy and pleasant to use, while being secure by default.
Since brig
is a "general purpose" tool for file synchronization it of course
cannot excel in all areas. This is especially true for efficiency, which is
sometimes sacrificed to get the balance of usability and security right.
Recommend
About Joyk
Aggregate valuable and interesting links.
Joyk means Joy of geeK