twit

the slightly less stupid content tracker

what?

An implementation of git in golang.

Initially this will be a read-only implementation, but eventually should evolve into a fully read-write implementation.

why?

Because.

More specifically, I felt like there are were some significant improvements which could be made in:

• Speed (there are many embarassingly parallel tasks in git which are not parallel in the C implementation due to potential implementation complexity, but which are trivial to parallelize efficiently in go).
• Cross-platform support (git's windows implementation is quite slow and is a second-class citizen).
• Library support. libgit wasn't so hot, and libgit2 seems to be a pretty straightforward port of git to a library (meaning that many of the non-parallelized/non-threadsafe design decisions are carried over from git).

how? (a.k.a. installation)

1. set up your go environment.
2. go get github.com/riannucci/twit
3. there is no step #3

Access documentation the same way that you do with git (twit help <topic>).