TimedFile

If you need a single file to be versioned, this wrapper for you.

Features

You can save, rollback, fastforward, reset and clean

• save to create a version on the timeline which you rollback, fastforward or reset to.
• rollback to go back to a version which you have saved before
• fastforward to fast forward to a version during a rollback
• reset to remove all existing changes to the current version on the timeline (not always the latest)
• clean to remove all existing versioning data (including commits and rollbacks), as good a new timedfile.
• diff shows the content difference between modified text and current saved state
• diffs shows a timeline of all the changes in diff format from npm-diff

Basic Usage

Examples of how to use the wrapper - Using Async/Await

For more usage examples, you can refer to the full documentation unit tests

To Save

const timedFile = new TimedFile({fileFullPath: 'PathToFile'});

Here is where you write something to the file

fs.appendFileSync(pathToFile, 'Some New Line');

• Saving

await timedFile.save(author);

To Rollback

const timedFile = new TimedFile({fileFullPath: 'PathToFile'});

Here is where you write and save to the file a few times.

fs.appendFileSync(pathToFile, 'Some Line');
await timedFile.save(author);
fs.appendFileSync(pathToFile, 'Some Line Again');
await timedFile.save(author);

• Rollback

await timedFile.rollback();

It rollbacks to a version without the last entry of Some Line Again

To FastForward

Continuing from the Rollback scenario

• Fastforward

await timedFile.fastforward();

It rollbacks to a version with the last entry of Some Line Again

To Reset

Regardless of the contents in the file,

• Reset

await timedFile.reset();

• Clean

await timedFile.clean();

To Diff

• Diff

await timedFile.diff();

• Diffs

await timedFile.diffs();