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tredre3 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents

Git is famously not built around a (reusable) library, hence why we have things like libgit2 (unrelated to git) and why any porcelain on top of git has to resort to calling the binary and parsing its text output.

MBCook 3 months ago [–]

I was not aware of that. I knew it was split but didn’t know that split wasn’t useful to others.

Thanks.

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