# cachix/casita

> A content-addressed object store in Rust for source code and build artifacts, with deduplication, integrity verification, named roots, synchronization, and garbage collection. Suited for build caching and sharing artifacts across machines.

- Magnitude: 1.9 out of 10 — Cooling
- Stars: 77 total · +0 stars today, ≈ 6 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-09-27 · Last push: 2026-09-30
- GitHub: https://github.com/cachix/casita · Homepage: https://casita.rs · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/cachix/casita

## Useful for

- Import a source tree under a named root and restore it later via checkout
- Synchronize object graphs between local repositories or from an SSH source
- Verify repository integrity with fsck and collect unreachable data with gc

## Why it’s here

- 0 stars so far today, about 7 expected by the end of the day.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- The repository is 4 days old and already has 77 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #182.
- Hacker News: “Casita: A content-addressed store for source code and build artifact” — 16 points, 4 days ago.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @burke (606 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 4
- Issues and pull requests: 33
- Watchers: 2
- Average over the last week: 14 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: fskit-native-v0.1.0 (2026-09-28)

## Stars per day, last 12 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-20 … 2026-10-01: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 12, 34, 18, 4, 9, 0

## Hacker News

- Casita: A content-addressed store for source code and build artifact — 16 points, 2 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862892

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #182

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-01 03:34 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.