Re: Histogram diff, libgit2 enhancement, libgit2 => git merge (GSOC)

From: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Date: Mar 23, 2011, 00:24 UTC
Message-ID: <4D893DAB.3000501@lyx.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=Fu5v-5E2dSAA74f0juUQNjNjus5XFWqMb9v9k@mail.gmail.com>

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> b) Write a minimal Git client using libgit2. Peff keeps bringing this
> up and I think it's a bangin' good idea. Write something small and
> 100% self contained in a C executable that runs everywhere with 0
> dependencies -- don't aim for full feature completion, just the basic
> stuff to interoperate with a Git repository. Clone, checkout, branch,
> commit, push, pull, log. I would totally use that shit on my Windows
> boxes. And since it'll be externally compatible with the original Git
> client, we can reuse the Git unit tests to test libgit2. HA. Awesome!
>

I would dream of having a platform-independent GUI based on libgit2 which could be used to manage a large project. Setup the workflow in the app, requiring only single mouseclicks to promote a topic branch into the stable series. Have a button to merge all maint-branch-updates into the other branches. And more..

In order to come up with a possible workflow for our project, I have been checking out how Git is managed. I got a little bit disappointed that Junio uses some 'home-brewn' scripts for Git. I don't want to write them myselves (on Windows).

I'm happy to see that the 'vger' people are supporting libgit2.

Anyway, when I do have some time, I am willing to contribute to the libgit2 project.

Greetings,

Vincent