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libgit2 bindings for Rust.

[dependencies]
git2 = "0.20.2"

git2-rs works with stable Rust, and typically works with the most recent prior stable release as well.

Currently this library requires libgit2 1.9.0 (or newer patch versions). The source for libgit2 is included in the libgit2-sys crate so there's no need to pre-install the libgit2 library, the libgit2-sys crate will figure that and/or build that for you. On the other hand, if an appropriate version of libgit2 is present, git2 will attempt to dynamically link it.

To be more precise, the vendored libgit2 is linked statically if two conditions both hold:

• The environment variable LIBGIT2_NO_VENDOR=1 is not set
• and either a) The Cargo feature vendored-libgit2 is set or b) an appropriate version of libgit2 cannot be found on the system.

In particular, note that the environment variable overrides the Cargo feature.

$ git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/git2-rs
$ cd git2-rs
$ cargo build

Running tests and handling all of the associated edge cases on every commit proves tedious very quickly. To automate tests and handle proper stashing and unstashing of unstaged changes and thus avoid nasty surprises, use the pre-commit hook found here and place it into the .git/hooks/ with the name pre-commit. You may need to add execution permissions with chmod +x.

To skip tests on a simple commit or doc-fixes, use git commit --no-verify.

If the ssh feature is enabled (and it is by default) then this library depends on libssh2 which depends on OpenSSL. To get OpenSSL working follow the openssl crate's instructions.

This project is licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in git2-rs by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.