Guile-Git is a GNU Guile library providing bindings to libgit2.

Copyright © 2016, 2017 Amirouche Boubekki
Copyright © 2018, 2019 Erik Edrosa
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Guile-Git requires the following to be installed.

• GNU Guile >= 2.0.11
• libgit2 >= 0.28.0
• scheme-bytestructures

Guile-Git uses GNU autotools to create the build and installation scripts. The default install location is in /usr/local. From a release tarball you can run:

./configure
make
sudo make install

This will install Guile-Git with the prefix /usr/local/. This might not be the default load path for your GNU Guile. You may choose to change the prefix to your GNU Guile's location with ./configure --prefix=/usr or add /usr/local/ to GNU Guile's load path in your .profile or .bash_profile like this (replacing 2.2 with your GNU Guile major version):

export GUILE_LOAD_PATH="/usr/local/share/guile/site/2.2${GUILE_LOAD_PATH:+:}$GUILE_LOAD_PATH"
export GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH="/usr/local/lib/guile/2.2/site-ccache${GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH:+:}$GUILE_COMPILED_LOAD_PATH"

A common issue you may encounter when installing, especially on Ubuntu and Fedora, is guild not being found when you run configure. This happens because the configure script finds a symbolic link to a version of guile with a version number, like guile-2.2. This then has the configure script check for guild-2.2 which does not exist. To fix this, you can provide the path to the version of guile you want to install it for.

./configure GUILE=$(which guile)

The easiest way to start hacking on guile-git is to install GNU Guix and run the following command:

> guix environment -l guix.scm

To build from git you do:

./bootstrap
./configure
make

To run the unit tests you do:

make check

You can then:

• Create a pull request on gitlab
• Send a patch to one of the maintainers
• Come and ping OrangeShark about it at #[email protected].

And don't forget to add a unit test!

Guile-Git is licenced under GPLv3 or later. See COPYING file for details.