What is vGraph?

vGraph is a:

Graph

Property Graph

Versioned

Distributable

Cloned Repositories

Boundary Nodes

Implementation Agnostic

Creating Nodes/Edges

Node

Node ID

Node Label

Node Properties

Edge

Edge ID

Edge Label

Edge Properties

Modifying Nodes/Edges

Update Properties

Delete Edge

Delete Node

Commit

Commit

• Applies all outstanding changes to vGraph
• Returns a Commit containing all of the changes
• A Commit can be reversed by calling Undo
• The Commit can be shared across repositories

Info

Info

• Returns:
  • The repository identifier
  • The underlying vGraph version
  • The last commit id
  • Wether or not the graph is "clean"

Log

Log

• Returns a list of Commit Entries
• Used for seeing the history of this vGraph instance
• Contains things like the commit authors name, email, and a message about the commit

Undo

Undo

• Reverses one or more Commits
• It undoes until the provided Commit ID is the last commit
• Returns a list of the Commit IDs it undid

Reset

Reset

• Undoes any uncommitted changes
• Created elements are removed
• Changed elements are reverted
• Deleted elements are restored

Patch

Patch

• Applies a Commit to the Graph
• Can be used with merge to apply commits from other instances of vGraph

Merge

Merge

• Reformats a Commit to work with this instance of vGraph
• Fixes things so undo will work properly after this Commit is applied via patch
• May conflict in a few very specific cases

Merge Conflict

left half vGraph, right half Commit

Clone

Clone

• Returns a series of Commits 
• Can be used to clone a subset of the graph
• History is preserved

Copy

Copy

• Returns 1 Commit containing a copy of vGraph
• Can be used to copy a subset of the graph
• History is not preserved