# Re: libgit api & external integration 3 messages from 2009-07-11 to 2009-07-18. Participants: devzero2000, Jeff King, Sverre Rabbelier. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20088 ## devzero2000, 2009-07-11 21:17 Subject: Re: libgit api & external integration Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/b086760e0907111417o4b249676jc821e8733d340c9d%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` We, the rpm5 community, would like to incorporate in the rpm package manager (rpm5 branch) a  VCS - the history is lonk and probably not of interest. I personally have recommend git, for too much reason that everyone on this list can agreed. Unfortunately there seems to be no clear API or usable libgit to do this now: some comment on this ? Thanks in advance. ``` ## Jeff King, 2009-07-16 10:03 Subject: Re: libgit api & external integration Message-ID: <20090716100334.GB6742@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090716100334.GB6742%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:17:20PM +0200, devzero2000 wrote: > We, the rpm5 community, would like to incorporate in the rpm package > manager (rpm5 branch) a  VCS - the history is lonk and probably not of > interest. I personally have recommend git, for too much reason that > everyone on this list can agreed. Unfortunately there seems to be no > clear API or usable libgit to do this now: some comment on this ? > Thanks in advance. No, there is currently no linkable libgit. The official stable interface for interacting with git is the set of plumbing commands. -Peff ``` ## Sverre Rabbelier, 2009-07-18 02:10 Subject: Re: libgit api & external integration Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/fabb9a1e0907171910t529f3d9oe4b6ce0ed55f4800%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20090716100334.GB6742@coredump.intra.peff.net> ``` Heya, On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 03:03, Jeff King wrote: > No, there is currently no linkable libgit. The official stable interface > for interacting with git is the set of plumbing commands. Since this might not be obvious, you can find which commands are plumbing in 'man git' [0]. [0] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/#_low_level_commands_plumbing -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier ```