APPENDIX B
Embedded Git in Your Applications
If your application is for developers, chances are good that it could benefit from integration with source control. Even non-developer applications, such as document editors, could potentially benefit from version-control features and Git’s model works very well for many different scenarios.
If you need to integrate Git with your application, you have essentially three choices: spawning a shell and using the Git command-line tool, Libgit2, and JGit.
Command-line Git
One option is to spawn a shell process and use the Git command-line tool to do the work. This has the benefit of being canonical, and all ...
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