GitKraken Client Is Migrating from Libgit2 to the Git Executable

• libgit2

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  A cross-platform, linkable library implementation of Git that you can use in your application.

  

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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