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Re:Ask HN: With such fast changes in technology, how do you ... by webmaven on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @04:13PM (#13430326)
Git is not a library, it's a program. There are, of course, libraries in many languages for using git[0] from within many other kinds of applications.

Another example of a library would be libjpeg[1] for reading and writing the jpeg image format and dealing with all the different ways the format can be adjusted, which gets incorporated into many applications, for example ImageMagick[2].

Basically, a library consists of code that is intended to be reused by calling it from other code.

[0] It's astonishing how often this gets reinvented. Here are just Python libraries: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=git

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libjpeg

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageMagick

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Re:Ask HN: With such fast changes in technology, how do you ... by morbidhawk on Thursday January 19, 2017 @03:57PM (#13439417)
> It's astonishing how often this gets reinvented

Wow, I'd only heard of libgit2 before. I can't believe how many git-related python packages there are. Yes git isn't a library, it's a program like you said, good catch

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