Advantages that Git# (GitSharp) will bring over current alternatives on Windows?

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Advantages that Git# (GitSharp) will bring over current alternatives on Windows?

With their August 2010 release (they have a very clean road-map on their site), what are the advantages Git# (or GitSharp) and applications based on it have over current alternatives on Windows? I mean advantages that could not have been possible without Git#.

Edit: Question wasn't framed properly.

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I'm not sure that it makes sense to talk about advantages of one over the other, given that they are completely different things: MSysGit is a program to be used by humans, Git# is a library to be used by machines.

That's like asking what the advantages are of a slice of pizza over the International Space Station.

Jörg W Mittag 2010-07-28 21:38:50

You can both eat and afford a slice of pizza.

Mark Rushakoff 2010-07-28 21:41:45

Thanks for pointing that out. I've framed my question better now. Like, I use TortoiseGit at times. Would using GitSharp.Demo have advantages over it in terms of core features (like speed)?

Ashish 2010-07-28 21:47:47

For the end user it doesn't make a difference except that GitSharp isn't complete yet and therefor is not able to provide all the git features.

For the applications programmer it does make a huge difference because you can access a git repository via a clean and simple API and do not need to format command line commands, start msysgit in a seperate process and parse the output.

henon 2010-08-01 15:05:58

That's one thing. How does GitSharp (of whatever is ready as of now) compare with msysGit in terms of performance. Git was designed for performance.

Ashish 2010-08-01 21:22:19

We haven't even benchmarked gitsharp's performance yet ;)Cheers,

henon 2010-09-07 20:45:57

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