Lore is a centralized, content-addressed version control system designed to scale across large repositories and development teams.
It is particularly suited to projects that combine source code with sizeable binary assets, including games and other media-rich productions.
Repository data is represented using Merkle trees and an immutable revision chain. Files are divided into reusable chunks, helping Lore reduce duplication and transfer only the data required by a workspace. Lightweight branches, sparse workspaces and on-demand file hydration are intended to make working with large repositories more efficient.
Lore provides a command-line interface, server and core library written in Rust. Its API can be accessed from C/C++, C#, Rust, Go, Python and JavaScript. The software remains under active development and has not yet reached version 1.0.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Content-addressed storage based on Merkle trees.
- Immutable revision chain with cryptographic integrity checking.
- Chunked storage designed for large binary files.
- Deduplication of data across revisions and branches.
- Sparse workspaces with on-demand file hydration.
- Lightweight branching and fast branch switching.
- Centralized service architecture with caching support.
- Command-line access to the complete feature set.
- APIs for C/C++, C#, Rust, Go, Python and JavaScript.
- Includes a core library, server and command-line client.
Website: github.com/EpicGames/lore
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Developer: Epic Games
License: MIT License
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