CITATION.cff

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authors:
  - family-names: Hiremath
    given-names: Prakul
title: "flashback: Git for Datasets — time-travel debugging and transformation lineage tracking for pandas & Polars"
version: 0.1.0  # Replace with your current release version if applicable
date-released: 2026-05-29
url: "https://github.com/prakulhiremath/flashback"
repository-code: "https://github.com/prakulhiremath/flashback"
license: MIT
keywords:
  - "data lineage"
  - "reproducibility"
  - "pandas"
  - "polars"
  - "time-travel debugging"
  - "data science"
  - "machine learning"
  - "dataframe versioning"
abstract: >-
  flashback is an in-memory data versioning and lineage tracking tool for pandas and 
  Polars. It wraps dataframes in a proxy layer to capture operations as a Directed 
  Acyclic Graph (DAG) using deterministic SHA-256 hashing. It provides data scientists 
  and ML researchers with structural diffing, instant time-travel checkouts, and terminal-based 
  visualizations without the heavy overhead of file-based orchestration systems.