From: Vincent van Ravesteijn Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:24:11 GMT Subject: Re: Histogram diff, libgit2 enhancement, libgit2 => git merge (GSOC) Message-ID: <4D893DAB.3000501@lyx.org> In-Reply-To: > 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