Darke Files

Darke Files is a version control and file synchronization system.

Its goal is to scale seamlessly between the two extremes:

• a full-featured version control system. It lets you work with branches and inspect and act on a rich version history. It works like version control systems programmers use today, for example Git.
• a file synchronization tool. It uploads your changed files to cloud storage so that you can forget it exists in the day-to-day operation. It works like cloud synchronization services everyone else uses, for example Dropbox or Google Drive.

Darke Files can scale between those two extremes in a single repository. This enables teams with a wide range of requirements for such a system to work on the same project.

Features

Works with every file

• Regardless whether you're using small text files or huge binary files, Darke Files handles them all.
• No matter what OS you're using, Darke Files won't try to change your line endings out from under you.

Quick to use or advanced even in a CLI

• Synchronize your changes with the server with one command with daf sync if you don't care about the details.
• Darke Files supports all the details with individual commits, refs (branches and tags) on both client and server, full-featured history, and merges when you need them.

Leaves your files alone

• Darke Files knows its limits and won't change your files.
• You know better how to solve merge conflicts. Darke Files lets you handle it.

Powerful, customizable, machine-readable access to a repository

• daf info and its powerful template language lets you read out everything from a repository.

Components

The CLI provides

• interaction with a local repository and its working directory
• synchronization with a server both with and without a local repository

The server features

• a place to upload your repositories to
• a read-only web interface to browse the contents of all uploaded repositories

Check out the quick start guide in the download package for getting started and more info.