kvgit 0.1.3

Versioned key-value store with git-like commit, branch, and merge semantics.

kvgit 🔀

Versioned key-value store with git-like commit, branch, and merge semantics.

Values are Any (serialized via pickle by default). Commits are content-addressable. Branches are cheap. Merges are three-way with pluggable per-key conflict resolution.

Features

• Commits -- immutable, content-addressable snapshots
• Branches -- named branch heads with CAS-based concurrency
• Three-way merge -- auto-merges non-overlapping changes, pluggable merge functions for conflicts
• Merge functions -- counters, last-writer-wins, or custom per-key merge logic
• Garbage collection -- high/low water rebase drops cold keys automatically
• Namespaces -- key-prefixed views with full read/write support
• Pluggable backends -- in-memory, disk (via diskcache), or bring your own KVStore

Install

pip install kvgit            # in-memory only
pip install kvgit[disk]      # adds disk backend via diskcache

Quick example

import kvgit

# Create a store -- values are Any (pickle-serialized by default)
s = kvgit.store()

s["user"] = "alice"
s["score"] = 0
s.commit()

first = s.current_commit

# Update and commit again
s["score"] = 100
s.commit()
print(s["score"])              # 100

# Rollback to the first commit
s.reset_to(first)
print(s["score"])              # 0

# Branching
s["score"] = 50
s.commit()

dev = s.create_branch("dev")
dev["score"] = 999
dev.commit()

print(s["score"])              # 50  (main unchanged)
print(dev["score"])            # 999 (dev branch)

Development

uv sync --extra dev
uv run pytest

Documentation

See docs/ for detailed API documentation:

• Core API (Versioned) -- commits, reads, writes, merging, branching, history
• Merge Functions -- per-key merge logic for conflict resolution
• Garbage Collection -- GCVersioned, rebase, orphan cleanup
• Backends & Namespaces -- KVStore interface, Memory, Disk, Store, Staged, Live, Namespaced