WeblateOrg / weblate

Web based localization tool with tight version control integration.
https://weblate.org/
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Consider using different git implementations #4558

Open nijel opened 4 years ago

nijel commented 4 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Weblate currently executes git internally for most of the operations. There might be better ways to interact with the repo these days using native libraries that would avoid forking a new process for every operation.

Describe the solution you'd like

Evaluate possible options, right now I can see:

Additional context

The only reason why Weblate didn't use some library from the beginning is that back in time when Weblate was initially written, there was no suitable solution.

comradekingu commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt ?