Towards supporting Git based projects

AlitheiaCore already supports SVN-based projects. The fundamental difference between SVN and Git is that in Git a commit can have many parent commits. It seems that the database schema can accommodate this characteristic of Git by design.

Specifically, Alitheia-Core's programming model and the respective database model seem to be in good shape in order to support many parents per revision. The linked code also shows how a revision associates to incoming and outgoing branches. Respectively, a branch tracks the revisions it comes in and goes out. Finally, parent - child revision pairs are stored in an extra database table.

Except for the database service, supporting Git-based projects means having a functional accessor for Git repos and an updater that will update Git-based project metadata in the database.

A proposed way to modify Alitheia-Core's programming model and database schema for supporting Git-based projects is described here.