The Gitaly server has a Ruby component, but also a Go component. The Ruby server uses Rugged[1] and Gollum-lib[2] which both use libgit2. The Go component does

The Gitaly server has a Ruby component, but also a Go component. The Ruby server uses Rugged[1] and Gollum-lib[2] which both use libgit2. The Go component doesn't have libgit2 binding yet, although we're looking into adding that later. That or maybe go-git[3]. But for now Gitaly is mainly focussed at migrating all git calls from the Rails monolith. Not introducing a new component now reduces the risks this project has. [1]: https://github.com/libgit2/rugged/ https://github.com/libgit2/rugged/ [2]: https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C027N716H/p1516954304000263 https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C027N716H/p151695430400026... [3]: https://github.com/src-d/go-git/ https://github.com/src-d/go-git/