General Information

libgit2-glib is a glib wrapper library around the libgit2 git access library.

libgit2 only implements the core plumbing functions, not really the higher level porcelain stuff. For a primer on Git Internals that you will need to know to work with Git at this level, check out [Chapter 9][pg] of the Pro Git book.

http://progit.org/book/ch9-0.html

libgit2-glib is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1, see the file 'COPYING' for more information.

Installation

libgit2-glib requires libgit2-0.25.x, glib 2.44.x, gio 2.26.x and gobject-introspection 0.9.x.

Simple install procedure:

% tar Jxf libgit2-glib-0.28.0.1.tar.xz # unpack the sources % cd libgit2-glib-0.28.0.1 # change to the toplevel directory % meson builddir # run meson % ninja -C builddir # build libgit2-glib

[ Become root if necessary ]

% ninja -C builddir install # install libgit2-glib

See the file 'INSTALL' for more detailed information.