Backup and restore your data at any point in time.
You can use Irmin on top of your own storage layer.
Automatic (de)serialization for custom data types.
Runs anywhere from Linux to web browsers and Xen unikernels.
Bi-directional compatibility with the Git on-disk format. Irmin state can be inspected and modified using the Git command-line tool.
Allows users to define custom merge functions and create event-driven workflows using a notification mechanism.
To install Irmin, the command-line tool and all optional dependencies using opam:
$ opam install irmin-cli
A minimal installation, with only the in-memory storage backend can be installed by running:
$ opam install irmin
The following packages have been made available on opam:
irmin
- the base package, including an in-memory storage implementationirmin-chunk
- chunked storageirmin-fs
- filesystem-based storageirmin-git
- Git compatible storageirmin-pack
- pack-file based storageirmin-http
- a simple REST interfaceirmin-graphql
- a GraphQL serverirmin-mirage
- mirage compatibilityirmin-cli
- command line toollibirmin
- C bindings to the irmin APIFor more information about an individual package consult the online documentation.
Below is a simple example of setting a key and getting the value out of a Git based, filesystem-backed store.
open Lwt.Syntax
(* Irmin store with string contents *)
module Store = Irmin_git_unix.FS.KV(Irmin.Contents.String)
(* Database configuration *)
let config = Irmin_git.config ~bare:true "/tmp/irmin/test"
(* Commit author *)
let author = "Example "
(* Commit information *)
let info fmt = Irmin_git_unix.info ~author fmt
let main =
(* Open the repo *)
let* repo = Store.Repo.v config in
(* Load the main branch *)
let* t = Store.main repo in
(* Set key "foo/bar" to "testing 123" *)
let* () = Store.set_exn t ~info:(info "Updating foo/bar") ["foo"; "bar"] "testing 123" in
(* Get key "foo/bar" and print it to stdout *)
let+ x = Store.get t ["foo"; "bar"] in
Printf.printf "foo/bar => '%s'\n" x
(* Run the program *)
let () = Lwt_main.run main
The example is contained in examples/readme.ml
. It can be compiled and executed with dune:
$ dune build examples/readme.exe
$ dune exec examples/readme.exe
foo/bar => 'testing 123'
The examples directory contains more advanced examples, which can be executed in the same way.
The same thing can also be accomplished using irmin, the command-line application installed with irmin-cli
, by running:
$ echo "root: ." > irmin.yml
$ irmin init
$ irmin set foo/bar "testing 123"
$ irmin get foo/bar
irmin.yml
allows for irmin flags to be set on a per-directory basis. You can also set flags globally using $HOME/.irmin/config.yml
.
Run irmin help irmin.yml
for further details.
Irmin is part of the MirageOS project and is supported by Tarides, Robur and OCaml Labs.