Re: C# Git Implementation

[henon <meinrad.recheis@gmail.com>]

Asheesh Laroia-2 wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, JD Guzman wrote:
> 
>> I read in the archives that there was once talk of porting Git over to 
>> C# and was wondering if anything ever came of this?  I realize there 
>> were some that didn't see the use for this but as Git is becoming more 
>> and more popular a more native implementation of Git for windows users 
>> would be a good endevour IMHO.
> 
> Is it possible to compile the Java-language jgit with the Common Language 
> Runtime and access that from a C# application?
> 
> -- Asheesh.
> 

Hi,
Just in case some of you are still interested in a git implementation in C#.
I evaluated all of the existing projects and chose the one of them which was
most advanced and had the most promising strategy of getting done soon:
kevin thompsons gitty. gitty is a  port of about 6k of ~20k lines of a jgit
snapshot from 2008. The gitty code is mostly not working because it has
never been debugged after porting.
 
I figured that the easiest way to a pure c# implementation of git is to port
jgit. Automatic porting attempts have not really been successful so I
decided to do it manually. Based on Kevin's very erraneous but yet valuable
work I ported even more substantial parts of jgit and its tests to C# and
got much of the code working as the over 200 passing tests can tell. By now
we have ported about 47% of the jgit source (snapshot from june 2009) and
got reading of repos and writing of trees, blobs and commits to work
already. The project is called Git# now and has already found a few
contributors on github. More info is available at the 
http://www.eqqon.com/index.php/GitSharp Git#  website.

I know that there have been several attempts by the Mono project to create a
git implementation in C#. They seem inactive and in a very basic state to me
but correct me if I am wrong. I will try to contact the mono folks for
collaboration on the matter.

-- henon
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