git library for Go

Question

As a pet project, I want to develop a note taking app using git as storage backend. (I suspect this doesn\'t exist yet, given this guy\'s blog post: http://jarofgreen.co.uk/2012

Answer 1

use git as storage backend

Then the Go library fluxcd/go-git-providers can come in handy.

go-git-providers is a general-purpose Go client for interacting with Git providers' APIs (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket).

Example:

package github_test

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"

    "github.com/fluxcd/go-git-providers/github"
    "github.com/fluxcd/go-git-providers/gitprovider"
    gogithub "github.com/google/go-github/v32/github"
)

func ExampleOrgRepositoriesClient_Get() {
    // Create a new client
    ctx := context.Background()
    c, err := github.NewClient()
    checkErr(err)

    // Parse the URL into an OrgRepositoryRef
    ref, err := gitprovider.ParseOrgRepositoryURL("https://github.com/fluxcd/flux")
    checkErr(err)

    // Get public information about the flux repository.
    repo, err := c.OrgRepositories().Get(ctx, *ref)
    checkErr(err)

    // Use .Get() to aquire a high-level gitprovider.OrganizationInfo struct
    repoInfo := repo.Get()
    // Cast the internal object to a *gogithub.Repository to access custom data
    internalRepo := repo.APIObject().(*gogithub.Repository)

    fmt.Printf("Description: %s. Homepage: %s", *repoInfo.Description, internalRepo.GetHomepage())
    // Output: Description: The GitOps Kubernetes operator. Homepage: https://docs.fluxcd.io
}