# History, Design and Future

Some time ago, <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/3#issuecomment-454956920" class="external-link" target="_blank">a **FastAPI** user asked</a>:

> What’s the history of this project? It seems to have come from nowhere to awesome in a few weeks [...]

Here's a little bit of that history.

## Alternatives

Alejandra <******@****.***> 1711071731 -0500

				CreateTime: obj.ModTime, // ModTime is createTime for config history entries.
			}
			if withData {
				data, err := readConfig(ctx, objAPI, obj.Name)
				if err != nil {
					// ignore history file if not readable.
					continue
				}

				data, err = decryptData(data, obj.Name)
				if err != nil {
					// ignore history file that cannot be loaded.
					continue
				}

Nils Lindemann <******@****.***> 1711822248 +0100

Alejandra <******@****.***> 1711071731 -0500

# -u: error if undefined variable used
# -x: log all commands
# -o pipefail: entire command fails if pipe fails. watch out for yes | ...
# -o history: record shell history
# -o allexport: export all functions and variables to be available to subscripts
#               (affects 'source $TFCI')
set -euxo pipefail -o history -o allexport

# Set TFCI_GIT_DIR, the root directory for all commands, to two directories

Alejandra <******@****.***> 1711071731 -0500

Alejandra <******@****.***> 1711071731 -0500

Alejandra <******@****.***> 1711071731 -0500

Alejandra <******@****.***> 1711071731 -0500