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GirthGirth is a Git library for Ruby I started back when there weren’t any Git libraries for Ruby and recently named and resurrected. It’s designed to be expressive and natural to use in IRB. A ridiculous amount of effort was put into making inspect methods provide executable output. When you call refs.heads.master
, the inspect includes refs.heads.master
(and just like in Git, you can shorten that call to just master
).
A big driver for the creation of this library was exploring the bowels of Git (side note: the same could be said of fugitive.vim). As such, it’s biased towards reading rather than writing, though has some support for both. It feels like a natural choice for writing Git hooks, though I haven’t used it for that much, yet.
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git-irbThis command creates a repository object for your current repository and places you inside it in an IRB session.
$ git-irb >> head == refs.heads.master => true >> head.sha1 => "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"