RArakoo·Jan 26, 2018
If forking to a process is not good enough, I'd use a native, read-only library such as https://github.com/speedata/gogit
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Pure Go read access of a Git repository
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4 sourcesShameless plug: https://github.com/speedata/gogit (I use that one with a 300 Gig repository)
Edit: this is the backend used in https://ctanmirror.speedata.de/ a "travel back in time" archive of CTAN (back to 2013-03-17, IIRC)
In Show HN: Go-git – low-level and extensible Git client library in Go> But there aren't very many FOSS clean-room implementations of Git, at least not this far down the chain (packfiles).
I know at least of gogit (https://github.com/speedata/gogit), if only a little, because I've contributed once to it. I don't want to belittle your project, but I'd like to know: what are the differences between gitgo and gogit ?
(I see at least one similarity: the name is extraordinarily unimaginative :)
In Unpacking Git packfilesEmbedding git the application (or even the library) itself can be difficult, as shown by github's experience [0] (I guess they know what they're talking about).
What you can do, on the other hand, is use the git format. There's already something pure-python [0] and something pure-go [1], and I'm pretty sure the same exists for other languages.
Oh and by the way, the pure-python I linked to is used for bup, a backup tool that stores its data in git format. Because it's extremely efficient.
[0] https://github.com/bup/bup/blob/master/lib/bup/git.py
[1] https://github.com/speedata/gogit
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