Git Exec Wrapper for Dotnet

This is a class library that provides a (hopefully) easy-to-use wrapper around command-line git, to facilitate scripting.

Motivation

While working on a project with many git repositories (79 at last count), I wanted to automate the process of keeping each repository up-to-date on my laptop. I originally started out using libgit2sharp, but ran into two stumbling blocks:

1. libgit2sharp does not support SSH when doing a fetch.
2. Since libgit2sharp uses a native C library, I could not package my application as a single-file executable.

These are somewhat specific to my use case. In general, I would highly recommend using libgit2sharp if possible, as it is battle tested, well maintained, documented, and does not rely on git being installed.

The amazing simple-exec library is used to actually run the git commands. The value-add in this wrapper library is the code that parses the output from commands like git status, making it easy to consume in scripts.

Usage

TBD.

Supported (and planned) Git Commands

• git-branch - TBD
• git-fetch - implementing
• git-remote - show sub-command planned, others TBD
• git-status - complete

Alpha Feed

Changes on the develop branch will push nuget packages to github's nuget repository. These can be consumed by configuring a package source. A source can be configured using the dotnet nuget command, thusly:

dotnet nuget add source "https://nuget.pkg.github.com/dswisher/index.json" --name "githubfeed" --username <email> --password <PAT>

The PAT above is a github personal access token.

The dotnet nuget command also has an update verb that can be used to update the PAT when it expires after 30 days.

Related Projects

• libgit2sharp - brings all the might and speed of libgit2, a native Git implementation, to the managed world of .NET
• simple-exec - A .NET library that runs external commands
• gitextensions - a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories (C#)