Tim, This is fantastic progress. If you need another Kickstarter, I'd be happy to contribute again. I think for many of us, this fits in the "awesome projects I would love to use but don't want to build myself" bucket.
I'm going to start playing with the code. Cheers, Kevin On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote: > Just wanted to send a node out that my js-git project has reached the > first milestone in functionality. This means you can use the library to: > > - Clone remote repositories over TCP, HTTP(s) and SSH. > - Pull in incremental updates > - Make shallow clones or clone only a specific branch or tag. > > Once you have a local repository, either created locally or cloned from a > remote, you have full read-write access using low-level APIs. > > - Create git object (blob, tree, commit, tag) > - Read git objects > - Create and manage tags and branches > - Walk history as a stream > - Walk a file tree as a stream > - Export the tree to real files > > There are numerous examples on the various js-git related packages linked > to at the end of the README. > > Since this is the node list and js-git is not node-only, here are some > possible use cases for js-git in node programs. > > - Use a git repo as a database for a web app. > - Use js-git to fetch remote code for deployment tools > - Scrape remote repos looking for data progamatically. > - Whatever else you can think of. > > Currently I'm still working on reading pre-existing git repos (the code > doesn't handle packfiles) and pushing back to remotes. That will all be > part of milestone #2. > > My goal is to finish the first 4 milestones by new-years. At that point > it will be functional enough for full development workflow and all sorts of > custom servers. > > https://github.com/creationix/js-git > > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Kevin Swiber Projects: https://github.com/kevinswiber Twitter: @kevinswiber -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
