clgit: Command Line GIT wrappers

Pros

• Fully integrates with your local git
• #![forbid(unsafe_code)]
• No dependencies
• MSRV: 1.32.0

Cons

• Requires a git installation

• Extra overhead from constantly spawning new processes

• Leaner API

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Alternative: git2 / libgit2-sys / libgit2

Links: github, docs.rs, crates.io

Pros

• git2 is much more widely used/vetted/tested
• git2 is higher performance, probably
• No need to separately install git

Cons

• !Sync
• libgit2-sys has annoying OpenSSL dev dependencies on linux to build
• libgit2's license is complicated and GPL-laden
• Multiple crates pulling in different versions of libgit2-sys will cause build conflicts requiring upstream patches
• Unsafe-laden FFI makes me nervous
• Reading git repositories with an old libgit2 created by a newer git command line sounds like version mismatch incompatability bugs waiting to happen.
• May not fully integrate with any custom git hooks you may have setup