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A talk about libgit2

Vicent Martí
November 16, 2011
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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.

Vicent Martí

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.

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  2. work
    Vicent
    Martí
    [email protected]
    @tanoku

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  3. VCS are broken by

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

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

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  6. UNIX
    WAY
    THE
    ™

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  7. UNIX
    WAY
    only works on UNIX
    THE
    ™

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

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  10. THIS IS BAD

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  11. THIS IS BAD
    and we should
    feel bad

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  12. JGit
    Dulwich
    Grit
    libgit2
    ...

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  13. SVN
    JGit
    Dulwich
    Grit
    libgit2
    ...

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  14. SVN
    Py
    JGit
    Dulwich
    Grit
    libgit2
    ...

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

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  16. C
    yes, that’s a feature now

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  17. dep
    Zero. Nicht. Nada.
    0

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  18. runs

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  19. runs everywhere

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  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

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  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

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  22. runs everywhere

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  23. runs everywhere
    natively

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  24. runs everywhere
    natively
    ⤹
    with

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  25. runs everywhere
    natively
    ⤹
    with

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  26. 200+ API calls

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  27. github.com/libgit2
    [email protected]

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