From: Patrick Altman <paltman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:17:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Git Library?
Message-ID: <F427C4D4-7264-4341-A714-23D9DD39E229@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3y76xofgm.fsf@localhost.localdomain>


On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> 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.

>> 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