git2-rs

> The binary is also 53M That's a debug binary, and the vast majority of that is debug symbols. A release build of this project is 4.3M, an order of magnitude smaller. Also, compiling out the default features of the git2 crate eliminates several dependencies and reduces it further to 3.6M. https://github.com/bgreenwell/lstr/pull/5 https://github.com/rust-lang/git2-rs/pull/1168 Stripping the binary further improves it to 2.9M, and some further optimizations get it to 2.2M without any compromise to performance. (You can get it smaller by optimizing for size, but I wouldn't recommend that unless you really do value size more than performance.)

I'm currently using https://github.com/rust-lang/git2-rs to interact with git in my software. Are you aiming to have a stable api that could act as a pure-rust replacement for that at some point in the future?

There are bindings to git in Rust (https://github.com/rust-lang/git2-rs ) - I've used it in a couple of my projects (https://github.com/samsieber/subgit-sync for example). That said, even when using those bindings, I've had to drop down to wrapping the porcelain sometimes. I'd love to have a native rust git implementation. It'd be easier to hack on, and to abuse for the type of git interactions I've written. And it'd be one less external dependency to worry about when cross-compiling. I love how easy it is to install things from source in Rust - and it's pretty easy to add flag to make the program use your CPU's special instruction set to make it even faster.