From: Jakub Narebski Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:01:37 GMT Subject: Re: Git Library? Message-ID: <200804290001.39226.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Patrick Altman wrote: > On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> Patrick Altman writes: >> >>> I want to write a Mac OSX UI for git. >> >> Something like GitNub? > > Not really. GitNub is really an interface for GitHub. I am thinking > something more like ZigVersion, http://zigzig.com/, for Git instead of > Subversion. Well, I thought that GitNub is something similar to gitk, i.e. it is history browser, but in Ruby/Cocoa instead of Tcl/Tk. >>> Is there a documented/undocumented API for interacting with git in >>> process? Or would I be better off "shelling out" to the git command >>> line? >> >> Take a look how other GUIs does it. > > git-gui is written in Tcl I believe, which I do not want to use. > GitNub is the only other GUI of sorts that i am aware of but like I > mentioned above, that really is more of a GitHub interface and less of > a git interface. Take a look at http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools page: there is a list of GUIs there. There is gitk and git-gui, there is QGit and varipus PyQt GUIs, there is Giggle, there is tig. > I think that this point I am just going to use NTask and the like in > Cocoa/Objective-C to wrap the command line utilities. I think best would be to see how QGit does it... -- Jakub Narebski Poland