Re: Git SCM API remote

[Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru>]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 01:57:42PM +0100, Ana Jovanovska wrote:

> I am developing the integration with Git SCM and I will need your help
> on this matter.
> This is API remote doc https://www.git-scm.com/docs/api-remote .
No, it is not.

Unfortunately, looks like your knowledge about Git itself is a bit lacking
currently as you appear to not be aware of Git's terminology.
I would say, reading a book on Git ([1] is good), and a couple of manuals on
it, possibly starting with [2].

> Can I have more information on how to use it, do I need some additional
> library?

Git itself does not ship anything you could call a library, but it is
comprised from a large number of individual commands (which are what you would
call "command-line commands") which are broadly divided into two categories -
for end users and for use by other commands; these groups are called
"porcelain" and "plumbing". Call out to plumbing-layer commands is the typical
way to automate Git.

If you need to somehow manipulate Git repositores - you did not say anything
about what that "integration" has to be about, - without having Git installed,
you may resort to 3rd-party libraries such as [3]. ISTR it also has wrapping
libraries in several programming languages.

Also note that there exist libraries for various programming languages which
wrap calls to plumbing-layer Git commands, so they sort of implement something
in between a "pure library" which does not call out to Git and calling Git
directly.

1. https://www.git-scm.com/book/en/v2
2. https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git
3. https://libgit2.org/