go-vcs is a library for manipulating and inspecting VCS repositories in Go. It currently supports Git and Mercurial (hg).

Note: the public API is experimental and subject to change until further notice.

• Documentation on Sourcegraph

The faster libgit2 implementation of git depends on git2go on its next branch. To install it, you will need:

• cmake
• pkg-config
• libssh2
• libgcrypt

Once you have those prerequisites, follow these steps to install git2go on next branch.

For hg blame, you need to install hglib: pip install python-hglib.

go get -u sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/go-vcs/vcs

The goal is to have all supported backends at feature parity, but until then, consult this table for implementation differences.

Contributions that fill in the gaps are welcome!

You need to install and run the protobuf compiler before you can regenerate Go code after you change the vcs.proto file.

1. Install protoc, the protobuf compiler. Find more details in the protobuf README.

   On OS X, you can install it with Homebrew by running:

   brew install --devel protobuf
   

   Then make sure the protoc binary is in your $PATH.

2. Install gogo/protobuf.

   go get -u github.com/gogo/protobuf/...
   

3. Install gopathexec:

   go get -u sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/gopathexec
   

go generate sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/go-vcs/vcs/...

Run go test ./vcs/.... You may need to supply linker flags to link with libgit2. If you get a linker error, try running make test instead. If that doesn't work, check the command that make test runs to see if it is using the correct paths on your system.

Note that the tests test the libgit2 implementation and SSH support (see above instructions).

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