git-fastclone vs go-git

Overview

git-fastclone

Stacks2

Followers9

Votes0

GitHub Stars191

Forks29

go-git

Stacks10

Followers15

Votes0

GitHub Stars4.9K

Forks535

git-fastclone vs go-git: What are the differences?

git-fastclone: git clone --recursive on steroids, by Square. It creates a reference repo with git clone --mirror in /var/tmp/git-fastclone/reference for each repository and git submodule linked in the main repo. You can control where it puts these by changing the REFERENCE_REPO_DIR environment variable; go-git: *Low-level and extensible Git client library in Go *. A low level and highly extensible git client library for reading repositories from git servers. It is written in Go from scratch, without any C dependencies.

git-fastclone and go-git can be categorized as "Git" tools.

git-fastclone and go-git are both open source tools. It seems that go-git with 4.12K GitHub stars and 433 forks on GitHub has more adoption than git-fastclone with 164 GitHub stars and 20 GitHub forks.

Detailed Comparison

git-fastclone	go-git
It creates a reference repo with git clone --mirror in /var/tmp/git-fastclone/reference for each repository and git submodule linked in the main repo. You can control where it puts these by changing the REFERENCE_REPO_DIR environment variable.	A low level and highly extensible git client library for reading repositories from git servers. It is written in Go from scratch, without any C dependencies.
Create a reference repo for every repository and their submodules; Updates mirrors from origin and clones into target directory	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 191	GitHub Stars 4.9K
GitHub Forks 29	GitHub Forks 535
Stacks 2	Stacks 10
Followers 9	Followers 15
Votes 0	Votes 0
Integrations
GitHub	Git

What are some alternatives to git-fastclone, go-git?

Diff So Fancy

diff-so-fancy builds on the good-lookin' output of git contrib's diff-highlight to upgrade your diffs' appearances.

TortoiseGit

It is a Git revision control client, implemented as a Windows shell extension and based on TortoiseSVN. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License.

GitUI

It is a blazing fast terminal-UI for git written in Rust. You can inspect, commit, and amend changes. It has context-based help (no need to memorize tons of hot-keys).

pre-commit by Yelp

If one of your developers doesn’t have node installed but modifies a JavaScript file, pre-commit automatically handles downloading and building node to run jshint without root. Pre-commit is a multi-language package manager for pre-commit hooks. You specify a list of hooks you want and pre-commit manages the installation and execution of any hook written in any language before every commit. pre-commit is specifically designed to not require root access.

ungit

Clean and intuitive UI that makes it easy to understand git.

rebase-editor

Simple terminal based sequence editor for git interactive rebase. Written in Node.js, published to npm, uses terminal-kit.

hub

hub is a command line tool that wraps git in order to extend it with extra features and commands that make working with GitHub easier.

Check It Out

Check It Out lets you interactively see and choose what branch you want to check out without the hassle of trying to type out a long or confusing branch name. Checking out branches just got even simpler!