From: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:38:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Mailing lists, was Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008
Message-ID: <d411cc4a0807261138k8cfde7eo411ddb8ef3ec4cfd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080726175121.GA15015@spearce.org>

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com> writes:
>> >
>> > Just a thought - how about a question polling whether people would be
>> > interested in build tool wrappers around jgit - ant tasks, maven
>> > plugins, etc.?
>>
>> True, there are a lot of tools written in Java, which have or could
>> have support for Git: Ant tasks, Maven plugins, Hudson rules
>> (continuous integration), JIRA (bug/issue tracker).  Some of them
>> perhaps could use jgit, although if I understand correctly jgit is not
>> yet full implementation of Git: it is enough for egit, for local clone
>> of repository.
>
>  What Java based build tools would you like to see Git support in?
>  (choose zero or more, multiple choice)
>  Ant, Maven, Hudson, JIRA, other
>
>> I wonder if similar tools like mentioned above, but for the Ruby camp,
>> like Capistrano, Merb, Gitosis, whatever use git directly, or do they
>> use Ruby interface (and which interface).  I don't think there is
>> implementation of Git in Ruby... hmmmm....
>
> There is an implementation in Ruby, but I'm not sure what its
> state is.
>

The most up-to-date project is 'Grit', a spinoff of the GitHub site.
It has a number of things implemented in pure-ruby and is under active
development.  It runs GitHub, Gitorious, GitNub (osx tool), etc.

http://github.com/mojombo/grit/tree/master

Scott