Re: Git SCM API remote

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> Hello,
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> The libgit2, more specifically pygit2 helped me in creating repositories, branches and getting a list of branches locally.
> But with the integration (in Python), would like to connect to git remote server and to be able to do some of the git commands (https://www.pygit2.org/index.html) as mentioned.
> I looked into Remotes - RemoteCallbacks - credentials(url, username_from_url, allowed_types) (https://www.pygit2.org/remotes.html#pygit2.RemoteCallbacks.credentials).
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> Can we have support on this matter - how can we do it? Also if you are available for a call, so to better understand, it will be great. Thank you in advance.
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> Kind regards,
> Ana
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> On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 4:52 PM Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 01:57:42PM +0100, Ana Jovanovska wrote:
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>> > I am developing the integration with Git SCM and I will need your help
>> > on this matter.
>> > This is API remote doc https://www.git-scm.com/docs/api-remote .
>> No, it is not.
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>> Unfortunately, looks like your knowledge about Git itself is a bit lacking
>> currently as you appear to not be aware of Git's terminology.
>> I would say, reading a book on Git ([1] is good), and a couple of manuals on
>> it, possibly starting with [2].
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>> > Can I have more information on how to use it, do I need some additional
>> > library?
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>> Git itself does not ship anything you could call a library, but it is
>> comprised from a large number of individual commands (which are what you would
>> call "command-line commands") which are broadly divided into two categories -
>> for end users and for use by other commands; these groups are called
>> "porcelain" and "plumbing". Call out to plumbing-layer commands is the typical
>> way to automate Git.
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>> If you need to somehow manipulate Git repositores - you did not say anything
>> about what that "integration" has to be about, - without having Git installed,
>> you may resort to 3rd-party libraries such as [3]. ISTR it also has wrapping
>> libraries in several programming languages.
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>> Also note that there exist libraries for various programming languages which
>> wrap calls to plumbing-layer Git commands, so they sort of implement something
>> in between a "pure library" which does not call out to Git and calling Git
>> directly.
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>> 1. https://www.git-scm.com/book/en/v2
>> 2. https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git
>> 3. https://libgit2.org/
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> Ana Jovanovska
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