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Re: Git Library?

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PAPatrick Altman <paltman@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 28, 2008, 21:17 UTC
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On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> Patrick Altman <paltman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I want to write a Mac OSX UI for git.
>
> Something like GitNub?

Not really. GitNub is really an interface for GitHub. I am thinking something more like ZigVersion, http://zigzig.com/, for Git instead of Subversion.

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>> Is there a documented/undocumented API for interacting with git in
>> process?  Or would I be better off "shelling out" to the git command
>> line?
>
> Take a look how other GUIs does it.

git-gui is written in TCL I believe, which I do not want to use. GitNub is the only other GUI of sorts that i am aware of but like I mentioned above, that really is more of a GitHub interface and less of a git interface.

I think that this point I am just going to use NTask and the like in Cocoa/Objective-C to wrap the command line utilities.

Thanks, Patrick

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