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A talk about libgit2

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A talk about libgit2

libgit2 is made of fluffy stuff. It's a fine library. I gave this talk at the Gittogether 2011.

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November 16, 2011
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Transcript

  1. The short talk where you hear about libgit2 for the

    first time in a w h i l e a n d g e t s u p e r e x c i t e d about it.

  2. work Vicent Martí [email protected] @tanoku

  3. VCS are broken by

  4. VCS are broken by design (CVS, SVN...)

  5. VCS are broken by design (CVS, SVN...) or implementation (Git)

  6. UNIX WAY THE ™

  7. UNIX WAY only works on UNIX THE ™

  8. UNIX WAY only works on UNIX THE ...and not always

    ™
  9. None

  10. THIS IS BAD

  11. THIS IS BAD and we should feel bad

  12. JGit Dulwich Grit libgit2 ...

  13. SVN JGit Dulwich Grit libgit2 ...

  14. SVN Py JGit Dulwich Grit libgit2 ...

  15. libgit2 a magical world of ponies, fluffy clouds and cross-platform

    compatibility

  16. C yes, that’s a feature now

  17. dep Zero. Nicht. Nada. 0

  18. runs

  19. runs everywhere

  20. Windows XP, Vista, 7 Linux MacOS X 10.5, 10.6, 10.7

    FreeBSD OpenBSD iOS 4, 5 MSVC 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010 GCC 3.4+ GCC 3.4+ GCC 3.4+ LLVM apple-cur MinGW current ICC LLVM Cygwin LLVM

  21. Windows XP, Vista, 7 Linux MacOS X 10.5, 10.6, 10.7

    FreeBSD OpenBSD iOS 4, 5 MSVC 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010 GCC 3.4+ GCC 3.4+ GCC 3.4+ LLVM apple-cur MinGW current ICC LLVM Cygwin LLVM ⤹now

  22. runs everywhere

  23. runs everywhere natively

  24. runs everywhere natively ⤹ with

  25. runs everywhere natively ⤹ with

  26. 200+ API calls

  27. github.com/libgit2 [email protected]