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[Git Merge 2013]
My name is Ben Straub.
I work for GitHub.
I work on a project called libgit2.
We've heard this mentioned
a couple times here today.
I thought I'd come up here and
give you guys a clue
as to what the heck this thing is.
Libgit2 is a C language re-implementation
of the internals of git in a way that is
friendly to access from other programs.
Before libgit2 existed, the way
that you would do this
is just shelling out to git and
parsing the textual output for that.
And it's not ideal.
Let's put it that way.
There's all kinds of problems.
Git also has machine-readable formats
that it can output.
There's a lot of support for this
kind of a thing but it's still not ideal.
Libgit2 tries to solve this problem.
This is what it looks like when you
use it from C.
And if you're not a C programmer
don't worry.
This is just a super super basic example
with very little error checking
as you can kind of tell.
But we also have lots of bindings.
Because it's written in C
in such a way to make it easy
for bindings to be written
we've got bindings for just about
every language you can think of
including Go for you, Jack.
The three on the top are probably
the most mature bindings.
The most complete.
Just because we at GitHub use those.
We use this for github.com.
We use this for GitHub for Mac
and GitHub for Windows.
The Microsoft guys are building it
into Visual Studio now.
It's used all over the place.
I think tortoisegit uses libgit2.
We're getting lots and lots of
users and clients that use this.
It's starting to get really really solid.
If you wanna know more
you wanna help us out
here's where to find us.
And check it out!
And I'll be around!
If you have any questions of any of us
feel free to come up and ask
I'd love to talk to you.
Thanks!
[Applause]
Question?
Yeah, go ahead!
[audience member] Does it run on iOS?
Does it run on iOS?
Yes! The answer is yes.
[a barely audible conversation between audience member and another man]
[second audience member] It does compile with iOS but with all the [inaudible]
It's very hard to get [inaudible].
[1st AM] No, it doesn't.
- [2nd AM] It does compile-- - [1st AM] Aright [inaudible]
[third audience member] [It calls with] a raspberry pi.
[Ben and some audience members laughing]
For the recording, the question was
"Does it run on iOS?"
The answer is, "Yes, sort of."
It's kind of hard to do something useful
with the sandboxing that you're under
in iOS. But, yeah, you can
do things with it.
Yes.
Yeah.
[other audience member] The question is, do you plan to make bindings for Java?
I know there is a JGit project but it is a bit different
because it is different from foundational git [inaudible].
[laughs]
At this point I have nothing to announce.
[laughter from the audience]
If there were to be such a thing
I would not be working on it.
There may be somebody else in this room
that is. I'm not sure.
[yet another audience member] We haven't spoken about Java.
[laughs]
Did you want to talk about that?
Or no? No?
[sixth audience member] JGit [inaudible].
Alright.
So I guess the main answer here is
to use JGit. JGit's pretty good.
It would be possible
to write JNI bindings for libgit2.
I don't know of a thing that exists right now.
[seventh audience member] I think another part
of the answer to that is that
libgit2 is also another [inaudible] to git.
So there are three very common [inaudible].
Anybody else?
Alright.
I will yield to the next speaker then.
Thanks guys!
[Git Merge 2013]