Unfortunately, the implementation of Git makes writing bindings to it - in Ruby or Python or something similar -very problematic. None of it is really meant to

Unfortunately, the implementation of Git makes writing bindings to it - in Ruby or Python or something similar -very problematic. None of it is really meant to be a long running process, so it will exit program execution on lots of different errors, etc. There was a Google Summer of Code project that tried to address this 'libification' problem, but it did not get very far - at least, not far enough to do what something like GitHub needs to do. http://code.google.com/soc/2007/git/appinfo.html?csaid=5DB940E4533E058B http://code.google.com/soc/2007/git/appinfo.html?csaid=5DB94... Actually, the Ruby implementation for most of these operations is pretty fast (though not as fast as C) and the object specs are incredibly slow changing. The commands change around a lot, but the objects themselves are pretty simple and have not changed much in years. Doing this is far less prone to git changing than depending on command line (or possibly even binding) calls.