From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@ximian.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:48:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [MonoDevelop] git integration with monodevelop
Message-ID: <1226519288.4483.176.camel@erandi.site>
In-Reply-To: <491AAE6D.8030304@op5.se>

Hello,

> So in an effort to learn C#, I've decided to play along with this
> (hopefully with some help from the MonoDevelop team), but it seems
> to me that the best place to start is the fledgling libgit2 and link
> that with git-sharp. The primary reason for this is ofcourse that I
> think it'd be a terrible waste to have yet another from-scratch
> implementation of git in a new language (ruby, java, C#, C...). The
> secondary reason is that it would be neat to have more OSS projects
> use my favourite scm.
> 
> Besides, getting something to rely on libgit2 early on is probably
> the best way to get more people interested in making development of
> it proceed rapidly.
> 
> Thoughts anyone?

We would still like to see a port of jgit to C# as a fully managed
implementation, one that does not make P/Invoke calls into C code can
run on the sandboxed versions of .NET (Like the one available in
SecondLife, Unity3D, Silverlight and Mesh).

Miguel.