Re: Is there have development library or API for git ?

From: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 26, 2008, 18:48 UTC
Message-ID: <d411cc4a0808261148g792c01ax325aff343e7c3333@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080825041217.GA19127@spearce.org>

The Ruby library Grit actually does a lot of stuff in pure ruby rather than forking, but you also might want to take a look at libgitcore:

http://git.codethink.co.uk/?p=git;a=shortlog;h=libgitcore

The codethink guys have stripped and rewritten a bunch of git to behave more like a linkable library, and I think they have a python binding as an example.

Scott

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

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> Sky Patrick <patricksky852@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there have development library or API for git ? Thank ~
>
> No.  However you can look at jgit if you are programming in Java.
> In Ruby look up Grit (a wrapper around the plumbing commands), or
> the pure-Ruby implementation of Git (I forget its name).
>
> Anything else, use the plumbing commands and just fork+exec what
> you need.  Many of them have a -z flag to use null termination
> on records, making it easier (and safer) to slurp data that may
> contain LFs.
>
> --
> Shawn.
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