repo-pack flattens a directory (like a Git repository) into a single, portable text file and can restore it later. It preserves directory structure and file contents (text files only), including SHA-256 checksums for integrity verification.
- Flatten: Pack a directory into a single text file.
- Restore: Unpack the text file back into its original directory structure.
- Text-Only: Automatically detects and skips binary files using
libmagic. - Integrity: Stores SHA-256 hashes for each packed file and can verify them during extraction.
- Unix Philosophy: Reads from directories, writes to standard output (packing), reads from files or standard input (unpacking), uses a simple text-based format.
You need gcc, make, libmagic-dev, and libssl-dev. On Debian/Ubuntu 24.04:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential libmagic-dev libssl-dev