API to interact with remotes? about node-gitteh HOT 8 CLOSED

This would be nice, but there's currently nothing like this offered in libgit2, and it doesn't look like it's coming any time soon unfortunately.

However, GSoC is coming, and I think there's a chance of some exciting projects for libgit2, so we'll see what happens there!

Once gitteh is documented and I have some time, it might be a possibility that we could flesh out a gitteh interface for working with remotes, and just have it use the git client in a shell (for now), once libgit2 offers native implementation, we can switch to that.

Gonna tag this as "Wishlist" for now :)

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We actually, I couldn't help myself. I whipped up a "git clone" in pure Node.js and gitteh in a day of hacking :) Go check it out, it's in the remotes branch. The relevant code is in lib/remotes.js, and you can run a sample in the top level with the file remotetest.js. It uses the "dumb" HTTP protocol to pull in all needed resources to clone a repository locally. It's pretty rough, needs a bit of polishing to be 100% functional, but I wrote it so that it should also work with a git fetch without too much extra work.

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Oh also, it'll only work with some changes I had to make to libgit2 in my fork, if you were wanting to test it out.

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Looking cool Sam! I'll try it out when I get a little free time (hopefully tonight)!

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On Apr 6, 2011, at 0:54, [email protected] wrote:

Oh also, it'll only work with some changes I had to make to libgit2 in my fork, if you were wanting to test it out.

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ssh clone support in development of libgit2
libgit2/libgit2#1558

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any takers?

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@darvin, check out examples/clone.js and examples/show_remote.js - this functionality should be available in master builds

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Gitteh v0.17.0 is published, and allows basic interaction with remotes, along with a proof-of-concept high level git clone example.

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