Replace git backend

[Bartvds]

Use js-git (and Lazy.js) instead of home-rolled github-api cache.

Pro:

• It is very modular for great power.

Con:

• Not very high-level though, but is a true git client.

[vvakame]

I tried js-git in the past.
It does not have git clone function perhaps. (isn't it?)
I choose node-git. it is gateway of git command. but it can use git clone https://github.com/vvakame/dtsm/blob/master/lib/wrapper/Git.ts#L13

[Bartvds]

Oh, js-git can 'clone' but you got to make a remote (using git-net) and then use repo.fetch() to pull it to a local repo, then set it as head, and then access the content.

js-git it is a lot more basic, but is very modular and 100% javascript. I don;t really like node-git too much (dependency on command-line client).

Note: I'm tryingt his out as a side project (so many 😺):

I'm hacking on an external module and experiment with some new stuff I wanted to try: using gulp, ES6 features (Map/Promise etc), node.js streams and Lazy.js

I started earlier using TypeScript but I dropped it and use ES6 compiler now, see how it goes.

[vvakame]

I heard for the first time a git-net! it sounds good!
I know node-git is depends on command-line client and i don't like it too :)

I want to use git-client on Browser. it requires pure JS implementation of git (and without Node.js).
but Browser not have a RawSocket API with TLS still... 😿

I am waiting ES6 feature(let, const, generator...) come to TS :)

[Bartvds]

I believe js-git can work in browser (at least for reading): git-net can return a http(s) interface. A problem is that the remotes are read-only (or I missed something).

If you want 100% pure browser for github API with read+write you can use https://github.com/philschatz/octokit.js

[Bartvds]

This ES6 + gulp stuff is just a giant heap of pain. 😞

ES6 support in all tooling is still limited, and gulp is complicated (streams) and the plugins are not yet very good.

So I'm back to TypeScript with es6-shim (for Map & Set).

FYI: TypeScript has the ES6 stuff scheduled for 1.x

[Bartvds]

Closing this as with latest additions to dev/next Github API + RAW work pretty good. Re-opening later if micro-modules #86 happen (if ever)