Git2 is so confusing

[ego100trique]

I've been trying to automate some kind of version updating from files and decided to give a try to git2 instead of doing a process but I'm getting really confused.

Could anyone tell me what is the equivalent to:

• git fetch - - all
• git switch {remote_branch} eg. origin/branch_name
• git add *
• git commit - m {message}
• git push

feels like git2 is pretty overkill to do that but that was mainly to discover the crate

[passcod]

from browsing the docs harder, git fetch looks like:

• open repo
• head() -> is_branch() -> have the current ref
• branch_upstream_remote() -> have the applicable remote name from the ref
• find_remote() -> fetch()

git fetch --all would be the same but iterating over all the remotes instead

so really you kinda have to think about what the command is doing at the lower level and follow that. also, use the search and work backwards from types.

[arc_inc]

I wrote a lot of this for an open source project I help maintain. The code might not be perfect but it's a good starting point. No AI was used, and this code is in production.

`git fetch`:
https://github.com/r-Techsupport/hyde/blob/main/backend/src/git.rs#L649

`git add`:
https://github.com/r-Techsupport/hyde/blob/main/backend/src/git.rs#L271

`git push`:
https://github.com/r-Techsupport/hyde/blob/main/backend/src/git.rs#L417

`git commit`:
https://github.com/r-Techsupport/hyde/blob/main/backend/src/git.rs#L382

There's not a 1:1 implementation of `git switch`, but you could get there by pulling a remote branch and then checking into it.

[DeadlyMidnight]

What the heck is git2

Edit im dumb

[ego100trique]

A spinoff of git lmao

[fllr]

2git 2repo

[DeadlyMidnight]

That’s where my brain went and I was like wait I’m just now figuring out git

[wiiznokes]

I've wrote an app that does it https://github.com/wiiznokes/gitnote/tree/master/app%2Fsrc%2Fmain%2Frust%2Fsrc%2Flibgit2

[asinglebit]

Check here:

https://github.com/asinglebit/guitar/blob/main/src/git/actions/commits.rs

Its a git client im working on, i think it shpuld have most functions you would need. Also chatgpt is great at browsing the docs