Re: exporting git commands in parsable format for constructing language-specific API for git CLI

From: ama bamo <pythoncontrol@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 7, 2021, 18:18 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJxd1DNB=OGgNkLHg=2TpQxgWKp1dTcg5vvFXG7+2MS0KyXjJA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <YGEMMyAYVlzgv79G@meme-cluster>

Hey Santiago!

Sorry for not being more specific - it's my first time in such a mailing list.

libgit2 and it's language-specific API looks interesting but its not the solution to the problem i am trying to solve.

I believe that git CLI is the most stable,reliable and tested way of actually using git. Most of the tools using git that i know are actually using your underlying git cli binary - not the bindings.

By following the definition of CLI and API; the CLI is human readable while the API is machine readable. If we were able to expose CLI in a machine-readable format then would it be an API?

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 1:07 AM Santiago Torres Arias <santiago@nyu.edu> wrote:

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> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 01:42:09AM +0100, ama bamo wrote:
> > While using git commands in my applications and reimplementing the
> > same stuff i found out i can just parse git docs then generate
> > structures and classes based on that; i have done similiar for
> > wordpress and its `wp-cli`, for example see:
> > https://github.com/bukowa/gowpcli/tree/master/generated
> >
> > But `wp-cli` allows exporting all of the commands in a json format,
> > see: https://github.com/bukowa/gowpcli/blob/master/generate/dump.json
>
> I'm not entirely sure if something like this exists in git, and I'm
> alsot unsure of what exactly is the benefit of doing so vs an actual API
> (e.g., git2go[1]). Could you help us by elaborating what this is meant to
> achieve? Maybe that way we can figure out if something exists...
>
> Cheers!
> -Santiago
>
> [1] https://github.com/libgit2/git2go