Tico - A Simple Version Control System

Tico is a minimalistic version control system written in Python. It provides basic versioning functionalities to help you manage changes to your project.

Installation Clone the Tico repository to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/MSTC-x-IITGN/WoC_6.0_Systems_Programming.git

Navigate to the Tico directory:

cd tico

Make the Tico script executable:

chmod +x tico.py

Copy the Tico script to a directory in your system's PATH (e.g., /usr/local/bin on Linux):

sudo cp tico.py /bin

Getting Started Follow the steps below to initialize and use Tico:

Initialize a new Tico repository:

tico init

Add a file to the index:

tico add <file>

Commit changes with a message:

tico commit -m <message>

Remove a file from the index:

tico rmadd <file>

Remove the last commit:

tico rmcommit

Display commit log:

tico log

Checkout a specific commit:

tico checkout <commit>

See usage help:

tico help

See the repository status:

tico status

See the present user (default username is naveen):

tico user show

Change the user:

tico user set <username>

Push your files to another folder:

tico push <path>

Tutorial

Watch this tutorial to get started with Tico.

Setting Up Python File

Windows

Save the Tico script as tico.py.

Add the folder containing tico.py to your system's PATH.

Open Command Prompt and use Tico commands.

Mac and Linux

Save the Tico script as tico.py.

Make it executable and Move it to a directory in your system's PATH (e.g., /usr/local/bin):

chmod +x tico.py
sudo cp tico.py /usr/local/bin/tico

Open Terminal and use Tico commands.