Re: C# Git Implementation

[Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>]

JD Guzman wrote:
> Hello I am new to the list and if I am not following some kind of list
> ettiquite please let me know. 
> 
> 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?

That depends. I think it's happened at least on three different occasions
that someone wants to port git to C#. The latest is the attempt to write a
libified git (in C) that will be DllImport()'ed from C#, which the devs at
MonoDevelop were sort of interested in. I'm currently working (very slowly)
on libgit2, and it's nowhere near usable today.

>  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.
> 

Truly. However, a better way forward is to create a portable git library
that any old application can use, no matter what language the application
is written in. That way, GUI-hackers can add all the bells and whistles
they like.

Besides that, msysgit works very well on Windows.

> At any rate any info would be greatly appreciated.
> 

libgit2 is available from
http://www.spearce.org/projects/scm/libgit2/libgit2.git
git://git.op5.org/git/libgit2.git

The first URL belongs to Shawn O. Pearce, the initiator of the libgit2
project. The second one is where I stash random stuff that I work on.
Note that git.op5.org is subject to heavy rebasing at the moment, as I'm
basically using it as a patch queue for Shawn (and everyone else who's
interested) to look at when they feel like it. It's not yet interesting
enough to warrant sending everything as patches to git@vger, but a small
bunch of people are helping making the small internal API's reliably
portable (filesystem operations, thread-local error handling) so that
we can nail them down hard to prevent having to change them (and their
hundreds of callers) in the future.

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