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Re:Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell by peterwwillis on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @11:20PM (#22305739)
Still more sane than JavaScript to me. Would use this over a 500MB Node.js implementation.
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Re:Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell by efreak on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @12:04AM (#22305956)
Is this a reference to something? I can't imagine it would take 500mb to reimplement git in JavaScript. This one's <75kb and full of explanations: https://github.com/maryrosecook/gitlet
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Re:Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell by GordonS on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @04:04AM (#22307170)
It's a dig at the typical size of a `node_modules` folder. These often are very large, and often do contain several thousand files, largely due to transitive dependencies.
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Re:Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell by thcz on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @01:21AM (#22306364)
For anyone looking to use Git in JS, check out https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git. I've had great success with it and really like it as a library. It's API design is good and it's tree-shakeable so the size of the library is very reasonable, even if taking it as a whole.
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