Re: Regarding GIT API

[Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>]

Dmitry Potapov venit, vidit, dixit 15.02.2011 12:49:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:08:14AM +0000, Abhinav Goyal wrote:
>> I just need the git command
>> support for my C++ application. I have my own reason for not using command
>> prompt system call.
> 
> If you need full git functionality, currently the only proper way is to
> use git porcelain command, i.e. run commands using system() and parse
> their output. Git porcelain commands are designed to be used in this way,
> so their output is easy to parse. Also, their output should not change
> between different versions, in contrast to front-end git commands, which
> provide more human oriented output.

You mean "plumbing" for the commands with robust interface.

The front-end commands are "porcelain": they may break when used for
heavy (scripting) work...

> 
> NOTE: There are libraries for some other languages such as Java and Ruby
> (jGit and Grit correspondingly), but they contain re-implementation of
> most git functionality. No one has bothered to write anything like that
> in C. So, libgit2 provides only low-level and very limited functionality.
> 
> More information about git interfaces to different languages, you can
> find here:
> 
> https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,_and_tools#Interfaces_to_other_programming_languages
> 
> 
> Dmitry