I was wondering if anyone here has done much work with libgit2? http://libgit2.github.com/
I've been fiddling around with Git trying to find a good "process" for lone development. While I really like the concepts of Gitflow, but I find for myself when I'm just hacking on code I really don't want to spend a bunch of time creating lots and lots of individual branches just to hack around a few small bug fixes. What I tend to do is setup a dev site on my local workstation to play in, and create a couple of branches for my own use. A "clean" upstream branch of whatever project I am working on. My own dev branch to use as a starting point, and then a "dirty" branch where I will use do all my coding. If all the changes were confined to a single directory, I can use git subtree to extract a synthetic history of just that directory, create a new upstream branch, merge the 2 branches and then submit a pull request from the new branch. However, many times a PHP web application will include multiple directories. IE there could be plugin/plugin_i_changed libs/plugins/plugin_i_changed assets/plugins/plugin_i_changed Git subtree doesn't handle multiple directories very well, but sparse checkouts work very well. I can create an empty repo, add my dev repo as a remote, enable sparse checkout and set the filters so it only checks out files that are in a directory that includes the string 'plugin_i_changed' in it. So I can checkout/merge from my dev code to get the changes, then merge back to the clean upstream branch. I've run across a few tools that perform almost the same functionality written in Ruby...but I'm really getting tired of installing Ruby and Python just to be able to use git tools that were written in them.. I don't mind python so much, except for the whole incompatibility issues with 2.7 and 3.x... I either need to install both versions and do some path changes to use the correct one, or I just don't use v3 stuff. Looking at libgit2 - the api is very nice and it's cross platform. Since I am always working in PHP I know that I will always have PHP 5.4 installed and functional. I'm curious if anyone knows of any active PHP tools already using it?
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