pygit2 VS libgit2

Compare pygit2 vs libgit2 and see what are their differences.

pygit2

Python bindings for libgit2 (by libgit2)

libgit2

A cross-platform, linkable library implementation of Git that you can use in your application. (by libgit2)
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pygit2 libgit2
1 30
1,576 9,387
1.2% 1.0%
9.0 9.6
1 day ago 6 days ago
Python C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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pygit2

Posts with mentions or reviews of pygit2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-29.
  • Hello, HPy
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2021
    It still is, and Cython is great for accelerating critical Python code.

    A C extension is far preferable when you want to code in C, either to write a new data type[1], or write a Python frontend to a C library[2] that is too complex to be well supported by simple FFI.

    I think people use Cython more internally when they value the maintainability of "mostly Python" over the fact that it's slower than what native C would get them.

    [1]: https://github.com/tobgu/pyrsistent

    [2]: https://github.com/libgit2/pygit2

libgit2

Posts with mentions or reviews of libgit2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pygit2 and libgit2 you can also consider the following projects:

elfshaker - elfshaker stores binary objects efficiently

git-branchless - High-velocity, monorepo-scale workflow for Git

horde - Horde is a distributed Supervisor and Registry backed by DeltaCrdt

git-date - Bindings onto the date parsing code from Git

Guitar - Git GUI Client

pygooglenews - If Google News had a Python library

git2-rs - libgit2 bindings for Rust

immer - Postmodern immutable and persistent data structures for C++ — value semantics at scale

libevent - Event notification library

GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input

git - A fork of Git containing Microsoft-specific patches.

tig - Text-mode interface for git