Re: C# Git Implementation
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henon <meinrad.recheis@gmail.com>
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- Jul 11, 2009, 21:25 UTC
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Asheesh Laroia-2 wrote:
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> > On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, JD Guzman wrote: > >> I read in the archives that there was once talk of porting Git over to >> C# and was wondering if anything ever came of this? I realize there >> were some that didn't see the use for this but as Git is becoming more >> and more popular a more native implementation of Git for windows users >> would be a good endevour IMHO. > > Is it possible to compile the Java-language jgit with the Common Language > Runtime and access that from a C# application? > > -- Asheesh. >
Hi, Just in case some of you are still interested in a git implementation in C#. I evaluated all of the existing projects and chose the one of them which was most advanced and had the most promising strategy of getting done soon: kevin thompsons gitty. gitty is a port of about 6k of ~20k lines of a jgit snapshot from 2008. The gitty code is mostly not working because it has never been debugged after porting. I figured that the easiest way to a pure c# implementation of git is to port jgit. Automatic porting attempts have not really been successful so I decided to do it manually. Based on Kevin's very erraneous but yet valuable work I ported even more substantial parts of jgit and its tests to C# and got much of the code working as the over 200 passing tests can tell. By now we have ported about 47% of the jgit source (snapshot from june 2009) and got reading of repos and writing of trees, blobs and commits to work already. The project is called Git# now and has already found a few contributors on github. More info is available at the http://www.eqqon.com/index.php/GitSharp Git# website.
I know that there have been several attempts by the Mono project to create a git implementation in C#. They seem inactive and in a very basic state to me but correct me if I am wrong. I will try to contact the mono folks for collaboration on the matter.
-- henon
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