posh-git VS LibGit2Sharp

PowerShell: https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git/blob/master/src/GitPromp...

I believe this is clean Bash code and clean PowerShell code, and a script with a certain complexity. The functions inside the Bash script are documented using comments, the ones inside the PowerShell script are documented using "structured comments" (similar to javadoc/xmldoc/...). The parameters of the functions inside the PowerShell script also contain metadata which is used to provide completion on the commandline and similar functionality as the command line flags you demonstrated.

I just learned about 'getopts' in Bash, which you can actually also use to implement parameters to a Bash function. So what you are showing on a script level, can also be applied for functions. Did not know about that.

Still, not saying PowerShell is better than Bash in a Linux context, but it seems a lot of Linux users have a gut reaction to right out reject PowerShell. I think it does have some advantages for certain use cases, like more complex scripts, a cross-platform context, ... and of course, for someone with a .NET background it's easier to program more complex things with it.

Starship is pretty slick, but I feel like it's lacking in the customization department. It's easy to get it to display whatever you want, but hard to get it to show it exactly how you want it. If you want a "powerline" style prompt, that's basically impossible in Starship (although it's one of the most upvoted feature requests). Or using color gradients on the prompt - I have this 16.7M color display, why am I limited to flat colors? Finally I'm a big fan of posh git, and Starship doesn't have the ability to display anything like this natively. I used a custom command to run a modified version of posh-git for a long time, but it wasn't very fast.

If you're on Windows, I've used posh-git in the past.

The Posh-Git module for showing Git repo details in the prompt.

Install Posh-Git using this command:

an autocompletion tool for your terminal, e.g. oh-my-zsh for the zsh shell or posh-git for PowerShell

To use it as an API on windows you might want to go with a C# wrapper. libgit2sharp

You might want to leverage something like libgit2 if you store that data in a unique location. After you commit changes to your data, you can find the patch differences in the file. Then store the commit hash and set up communication that wakes up when the hash changes. When the commit hash changes, you send just the patch changes to the clients which can apply them to their local copy.

libgit2sharp to work with git repositories in .NET https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2sharp

Is it something you could possibly achieve with git? - https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2sharp/

Currently, my plan is to use LibGit2Sharp to do almost all the logic, and use System.IO to manage the local files. Problem is: LibGit2Sharp documentation is very sparse and hard to read.