Re: git protocol specification

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jul 10, 2008, 01:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20080710014750.GA7714@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807092044120.4010@eeepc-johanness>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Tom Werner wrote:
> 
> > I'm working on a flexible Erlang replacement for git-daemon and would 
> > like to know if there is a specification available for the protocol that 
> > git-upload-pack and git-receive-pack use.
> 
> How about Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt?

You may also want to look at jgit's source code. Its a cleaner implementation of the protocol in 100% Java. Not something you would want to try and call directly from in Erlang, but it may be easier to follow.

  http://repo.or.cz/w/egit.git/

Look inside of the org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/transport package. In particular the client side of the protocol for git:// is in the TransportGitAnon class as two inner subclasses, one for fetch ('git-upload-pack') and another for push ('git-receive-pack').

-- 
Shawn.