# Git Library? 8 messages from 2008-04-28 to 2008-04-29. Participants: Patrick Altman, Johannes Schindelin, Jakub Narebski, David Symonds, David Aguilar. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13311 ## Patrick Altman, 2008-04-28 18:55 Subject: Git Library? Message-ID: <5FCF765E-F3FF-438C-B4C1-FFB3262831A0@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/5FCF765E-F3FF-438C-B4C1-FFB3262831A0%40gmail.com ``` I want to write a Mac OSX UI for git. 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? Thanks, Patrick Altman --- Patrick Altman (615) 300-2930 ``` ## Johannes Schindelin, 2008-04-28 19:10 Subject: Re: Git Library? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.DEB.1.00.0804282009310.19187%40eeepc-johanness In-Reply-To: <5FCF765E-F3FF-438C-B4C1-FFB3262831A0@gmail.com> ``` Hi, On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Patrick Altman wrote: > I want to write a Mac OSX UI for git. > > 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? There was a mail thread yesterday on exactly the same subject. Bottom line: the recommended way is to fork()&&exec(), because I am sure you do not want to put in the work to make libgit.a reentrant. Ciao, Dscho ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2008-04-28 21:08 Subject: Re: Git Library? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3y76xofgm.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <5FCF765E-F3FF-438C-B4C1-FFB3262831A0@gmail.com> ``` Patrick Altman writes: > I want to write a Mac OSX UI for git. Something like GitNub? > 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. -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ``` ## Patrick Altman, 2008-04-28 21:17 Subject: Re: Git Library? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/F427C4D4-7264-4341-A714-23D9DD39E229%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Patrick Altman 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 ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2008-04-28 22:01 Subject: Re: Git Library? Message-ID: <200804290001.39226.jnareb@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200804290001.39226.jnareb%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Patrick Altman wrote: > On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> Patrick Altman 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. Well, I thought that GitNub is something similar to gitk, i.e. it is history browser, but in Ruby/Cocoa instead of Tcl/Tk. >>> 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. Take a look at http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools page: there is a list of GUIs there. There is gitk and git-gui, there is QGit and varipus PyQt GUIs, there is Giggle, there is tig. > 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. I think best would be to see how QGit does it... -- Jakub Narebski Poland ``` ## David Symonds, 2008-04-28 22:09 Subject: Re: Git Library? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ee77f5c20804281509y3de0cc3cx72fe76e2102e3ed%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Patrick Altman wrote: > 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. That's the way I approached it when I started doing a half-hearted attempt at exactly what you're proposing. Clone my (small) rough code from http://git.symonds.id.au/macgit.git Dave. ``` ## David Aguilar, 2008-04-29 06:58 Subject: Re: Git Library? Message-ID: <402731c90804282358i205334b8me56f4390456873b4@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/402731c90804282358i205334b8me56f4390456873b4%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <5FCF765E-F3FF-438C-B4C1-FFB3262831A0@gmail.com> ``` On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Patrick Altman wrote: > I want to write a Mac OSX UI for git. > git gui works on OSX. Aside from that, someone's already written one* :-) http://repo.or.cz/ugit.git http://ugit.sf.net/ > 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? Fork/exec. If you grabbed the ugit modules you could say: from ugit import git revisions = git.rev_list(all=True).splitlines() file = open('msg', 'w') file.write("commit message." ) file.close() git.commit(F='msg', s=True) etc, etc. It's pretty much 90%+ of git wrapped in Python. If a libgit.so did appear one day it would be trivial to swap out the meta-functions in git.py and replace them with e.g. swig replacements. Until then, forking out works just fine. stg also has Python wrapped around git so you could look there too. -- David * - okay, I lied. It's PyQt4. But it does run on OSX and looks just like any other cocoa app. ``` ## David Aguilar, 2008-04-29 07:02 Subject: Re: Git Library? Message-ID: <402731c90804290002x3435e573i5e4d2fd08a84836c@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/402731c90804290002x3435e573i5e4d2fd08a84836c%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <402731c90804282358i205334b8me56f4390456873b4@mail.gmail.com> ``` > http://repo.or.cz/ugit.git Sorry, wrong url. http://repo.or.cz/w/ugit.git -- David ```