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Just enough git to push itself to GitHub

Shown by benhoyt on Apr 27, 2017. Click the card to turn it over.

208points

23comments

#155of 2,242 in 2017

Top 7%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

4 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.

Idea: 4 for, 3 against

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Educational for understanding git internals
From 2 comments
- Exercises like this are very educational for taking magic away from version control tools. Some time ago I did a similar exercise in Haskell: https://github.com/EarlGray/omit (it…
  dmytrish on HN
- Nice work! I love projects like this, because I think most of us would benefit from re-implementing our dev tools (at least partially) to develop a better understanding of how…
  rpeden on HN
Fun weekend project idea
From 1 comment
- Nice work! This seems like it could be a fun weekend project.
  BackwardSpy on HN

Name may be confused with pygit2
From 1 comment
- I'd reconsider the name, I'm sure pretty it will cause confusion with pygit2.
  raziel2p on HN
Git's CLI behavior is hard to replicate faithfully
From 1 comment
- The thing is, all of these details are implemented in the git command line tool, not in a library. So it is pretty difficult to write a tool that works exactly the same way the…
  AtticusTheGreat on HN

Add branches, merges, and remote sync
From 1 comment
- Exercises like this are very educational for taking magic away from version control tools. Some time ago I did a similar exercise in Haskell: https://github.com/EarlGray/omit (it…
  dmytrish on HN

How many more lines would branches, merges and remote sync need
From 1 comment
- Exercises like this are very educational for taking magic away from version control tools. Some time ago I did a similar exercise in Haskell: https://github.com/EarlGray/omit (it…
  dmytrish on HN

Gitlet, a git implementation in JavaScript
From 1 comment
- Related: http://gitlet.maryrosecook.com/ Gitlet is an implemention of Git in JavaScript. https://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/git-from-the-inside-out
  chubot on HN
Dulwich, a pure-Python git implementation
From 1 comment
- See also Dulwich, a pure-Python Git implementation https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich
  krallja on HN
libgit2
From 1 comment
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/3540 might be of interest (note that it's over a year old at this point)
  steveklabnik on HN