xargon180/dogged

Git repository management; managed wrapper for libgit2

Dogged and is a .NET wrapper around libgit2. It was inspired by the LibGit2Sharp project.

LibGit2Sharp remains the more mature option for .NET development of Git repository management tasks. This library is in early development; Dogged differs from LibGit2Sharp in a number of ways:

• Providing direct native access and a higher-level wrapper
  LibGit2Sharp hides the PInvoke bindings as private methods; Dogged exposes them in the Dogged.Natives package. A number of users want to avoid any managed layer and call the native code directly; with Dogged.Native they can do so.
• More direct native access with minimal caching or pre-loading
  A number of LibGit2Sharp APIs try to "pre-load" data from the underlying native bindings. This allows LibGit2Sharp to offer an API that has few IDisposable types at the expense of always loading data that may go unused. In contrast, Dogged attempts to only load data when necessary.
• A more direct mapping to libgit2
  LibGit2Sharp includes a number of classes that attempt to emulate parts of the Git command-line. Dogged attempts to more directly map libgit2, believing that innovation should occur in the shared native library so that all consumers can benefit, not just the .NET users.

Dogged is available under the MIT license, see the included file LICENSE for details.