bug#22883: Authenticating a Git checkout

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 4:22 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> It Would Be Nice if the libgit2 bindings were maintained separately.  We
>> can start with just the features we need as (guix git), but if anyone
>> wants to “externalize” it and improve it, that would be more than
>> welcome!
>
> I started a "guile-git" project awhile ago, but didn't get anywhere.
> Maybe I can snarf your bindings as a starting point?

Definitely, that’d be a great contribution!

Among other things, I didn’t pay attention to memory management; some
objects need finalizers, some are documented as having the same life
time as the repository object they come from (a weak-key hash table
could be used to have the life time of Scheme object match that of their
C counterpart.)  Nothing terrible though, and you know all that very
well.

> If the bindings were an external project, would it be an optional or
> mandatory dependency?

It may become a mandatory dependency because we’d use it in ‘guix pull’.

> Would you be OK with licensing the code under LGPLv3 or later?

Fine with me!

Thank you!

Ludo’.

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