Re: C# Git Implementation

[Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com>]

I hope portable git library, which can port to any languadge and platform.
Git itself use such library. So library can be verified at big scope.


2009/7/12 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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