Hi there, I'm the student working on the gsoc libfication project with Shawn and it has reached the point where I need some feedback in order to decide what to do next. The project's goal was/is to change what is needed in GIT in order to make it easier to use as library. This is useful for 'external' applications which wants to be able to perform GIT operations w/o having to fork-exec GIT process (and also w/o having to parse git's programs output). Example of such applications are language bindings and IDEs' plugins. However, the need for this is not a consensus. Some disagree (Linus included I think) and IIRC Junio has stated that he'd probably be against a stable API. So, in order to make things simple and have a clear separation of what is additional interface not needed by GIT we (Shawn and I) have decided to work on a new library which uses git's low-level interface. That library is called libgit-thin and currently it's capable of revision listing, commit parsing and some other things. To demonstrate how to use the library, I've also written a python module which exports to python all the library's functionality. Now I need to know whether this' really useful to other people and if so, what would be missing for you to start using it. The project can be found at: http://repo.or.cz/w/git/libgit-gsoc.git Look into the 'libgit-thin' directory. Note that it's a fork of Junio's tree, so if you have his repository around do: $ git clone --reference /path/to/junio/repo git://repo.or.cz/git/libgit-gsoc.git A demo of the python's module is available here: http://repo.or.cz/w/git/libgit-gsoc.git?a=blob;f=libgit-thin/pygit/demo.txt;h=f4f9cb726e06ac18a3bf125f3caa7c50dd095361;hb=HEAD Please, keep in mind that the library's code is still experimental and most of the python module's code is untested. It's also important to say that there's no much documentation available, you'll have to know a bit about git's implementation for this stuff to be useful for you. Thanks a lot for reading this and any kind of feedback is welcome. -- Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
