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Forklift

Standard

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Glossary

• "forklift" A program for moving pallets of files around a network.
• "pallet": A group of files "exported" from a "warehouse".
• "export": A declaration that a specific "warehouse" is able to provide a "pallet" of files to a "customer".
• "import": A request by a "customer" to "import" a "pallet" of files.
• "customer": An "importer" of "pallets"
• "warehouse": An "exporter" of "pallets"
• "jack": A small program, a plugin to forklift, which is used to move "pallets" from a "warehouse" to a "customer"

Pallet Specifications

Each pallet is identified by a combination of a warehouse, pallet and version specifiers. The warehouse specifier must be a reversed DNS name (e.g. com.g2forge) matching the server hosting the warehouse. The format of the pallet and version specifiers depend on the jack, but POSIX paths and semantic versions are common.

Currently supported warehouses:

• com.github: the pallet specifier must be of the form <organization-or-user>/<repository> and the version specifier must be <branch-or-tag-or-commit>
• GitHub enterprise: the warehouse specifier must name a running GitHub Enterprise server (as determined by querying the API) and the pallet and version identifiers the same as for com.github.
• org.maven: the pallet specifier must be of the form <group>:<artifact>.
• builtin: a special case of a warehouse specifier not being a reversed DNS name. The builtin warehouse is used to run scripts from within forklift itself, critically helpful for bootstraping forklift

Developers

Please see the Developers Guide.