gitbean Progress

Milestones

init — creates .gitbean/ structure (objects/, refs/heads/, refs/tags/, HEAD)
hash-object — hashes + stores blobs, byte-compatible with real Git (verified: hashes match)
cat-file -p / -t / -s — reads an object back out, decompresses, parses header, prints content/type/size
add — staging area / index (simplified text format for now, see notes below)
write-tree — binary tree object serialization
commit-tree / commit — commit objects + refs
log — walk parent pointers
status — diff working dir vs index vs HEAD
branch / checkout — ref manipulation

Date	Check	Result
2026-07-15	`hash-object`	Confirmed matching SHA-1 for identical file content
2026-07-15	`cat-file -p`	Confirmed real `git cat-file -p <hash>` can read objects written by gitbean

Command	Description
`gitbean init`	Sets up the repo structure
`gitbean hash-object [-w] <file>`	Hashes a file as a blob; `-w` also stores it
`gitbean cat-file -p <hash>`	Prints an object's content
`gitbean cat-file -t <hash>`	Prints an object's type
`gitbean cat-file -s <hash>`	Prints an object's size
`gitbean add <file>`	Hashes + stores a file as a blob, stages it in the index

Using a simplified plain-text index format for now (<hash> <filename> per line), not real Git's binary index format.
Decision made deliberately: the interesting/hard part of Git internals is trees/commits/history, not staging-file-format parsing. Revisit the binary format as its own milestone later if desired.
See OBJECT-FORMAT.md for the exact index format details.