Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself to GitHub

Re:Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself t... by lopkeny12ko on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:31PM (#36924878)

Why would someone use this instead of git? The value add is not clear to me.

> This is going to be a short section, because I don’t care about speed in this program, and the Go version is likely as fast or faster than the Python version.

That's...fine I guess, but it is disingenuous to compare the performance of this git client to another git client written by the same author but in a different language. As a reader and someone trying to understand how and why gogit would fit into my development workflow, I don't care how it stacks up against "pygit," I care how it stacks up against git.

> Conclusion > When used with panic-based error handling, Go is good for writing quick ’n’ dirty command line scripts.

Decent conclusion for the author himself, but no one else cares--the question of "why should someone migrate to this over git?" is still painfully unanswered.

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Re:Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself t... by tedunangst on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:42PM (#36924970)

I don't think you're expected to use a git client that's missing just about every wanted feature.

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Re:Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself t... by lopkeny12ko on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:50PM (#36925048)

Exactly why I find this article so confusing.

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Re:Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself t... by Matl on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:02PM (#36925145)

Why do you comment on Hacker News? After all there are many other commenters with insightful comments people presumably want to read.

If you answered; 'for fun', 'to learn something' etc. then you know why this blog post exists.

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Re:Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself t... by zeroxfe on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:45PM (#36925001)

Feels like you're missing the spirit of the article. Nobody's advocating it as a git replacement -- the author is just posting thoughts about something they built.

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Re:Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself t... by Chico75 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:48PM (#36925030)

Nowhere does the author advocates for using its tool instead of git. Not everything is about self-promotion, sometimes it's simply knowledge sharing.

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Re:Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself t... by egypturnash on Saturday July 29, 2023 @05:56PM (#36925097)

The second paragraph explains why this exists, and it's not to provide a useful implementation of Git.

> I wanted to compare what it would look like in Go, to see if it was reasonable to write small scripts in Go – quick ’n’ dirty code where performance isn’t a big deal, and stack traces are all you need for error handling.

It's a toy problem that's just big enough to be interesting. Comparing it to Hoyt's earlier Python implementation of the same problem lets him evaluate how Go would fit into a certain place in his development workflow.

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Re:Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself t... by patmorgan23 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:06PM (#36925193)

People build things for practice all the time and then write up their experience and what they learned.

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