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| git-date | libgit2 | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 35 | |
| 6 | 10,101 | |
| - | 0.4% | |
| 0.0 | 9.4 | |
| about 7 years ago | 21 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v2.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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libgit2
- Libgit2 – The Git Linkable Library
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In the long run, GPL code becomes irrelevant (2015)
Notably, libgit2[1] is GPLv2 with a full linking exception, while e.g. go-git[2] is Apache2.
[1] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2
[2] https://github.com/go-git/go-git
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Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories
Not sure what gitoxide is, but libgit already exists, it seems to be an independent implementation - https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2
I think Github and most big Git hosts use it
- Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
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Git Without a Forge
That does get intense pretty quickly, if you're generating a source and commit/diff pages for every file * every commit. Probably just single commits would make the most sense and then a source browser for each branch.
That said, JavaScript libgit2 is totally a thing [1], so doing it "properly" in a client app is totally possible.
[1]: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/4376
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Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative
Everything that is replicated on the network is stored as a Git object, using the libgit2[0] library. This library uses hardened SHA-1 internally, which is called sha1dc (for "detect collision").
[0]: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/ac0f2245510f6c75db1b...
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Speedbump – a TCP proxy to simulate variable network latency
This is delightful and I can't wait to try it out. Right now, the libgit2 project (https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2) has a custom HTTP git server wrapper that will throttle the responses down to a very slow rate. It's fun watching a `git clone` running over 2400 baud modem speeds, but it's actually been incredibly helpful for testing timeouts, odd buffering problems, and other things that crop up in weird network environments.
I'd love to jettison our hacky custom code and use something off-the-shelf instead.
- Things I just don't like about Git
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GitKraken Client Is Migrating from Libgit2 to the Git Executable
I've built a UI on top of libgit2 and I wish that this blog post expanded on which new features are missing (sparse checkout?).
To quote: "The migration to Git Executable will allow us to resolve long-standing issues with GitKraken Client, such as poor LFS performance, SSH configuration support and many other features/performance improvements."
I agree on LFS performance on Windows. SSH config support is a pain due to libssh2 but openssh support is on the way (https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6617).
There are many cons to using the Git executable itself (parsing output, error reporting, version handling). Seems to me that there's more to this?
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Mold 2.0.0
I'm curious about the license change? This is an executable is it not? Invoking it as a separate process does not require you make the software calling it GPL so switching to MIT should have no affect in the common case.
If the authors really wanted a more permissive license, then instead of relicensing from AGPL to MIT they should have gone AGPL with linking exception. An example of a project that does this is libgit2 [1]. This licensing is more permissive but still permits the author to sell commercial licenses to those making closed-source code changes.
[1] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2#license
What are some alternatives?
git-fmt - WIP: A custom git command for formatting code
pygit2 - Python bindings for libgit2
git - git protocol and storage in pure haskell
git - A fork of Git containing Microsoft-specific patches.
git-all - Utility for finding all Git repositories that need attention
libevent - Event notification library