ostree

init

• Initialize an empty ostree repo

ostree init \
  --repo=/path/to/new/repo

commit

• commit a directory into the repo
• The directory do not need to live in the repo structure. The repo can manage a completely isolated filesystem
• If --repo is not speficied, defaults to the current directory (if a ostree repo)

ostree commit \
  --repo==<repo-path> \
  --branch=mybranch \
  "tree/"

checkout

• Checkout (copies) the files of the repo into a directory

ostree checkout \
  --repo=<repo>
  <branch> \
  <target-dir>

refs

• Show all the refs (or branches) of a given repo

ostree refs \
  --repo=<repo>

ls

• Inspect the filesystem of a given repo

ostree ls --repo=<repo> <branch>

cat

• cat a file in the filesystem of a given repo

ostree cat --repo=<repo> <branch> <file>