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No, I want people to be informed well, and that requires me to hear their side so I can dispute them.

Many people has said they are thankful it calls out to "git" instead of using FFI, which I think is weird, but then there are others who go ahead and say that it is a worse thing to do, and I want people to know that no, it is not.

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> No, I want people to be informed well, and that requires me to hear their side so I can dispute them.

What's in it for them?

Yep, ggc is a wrapper around the git CLI — intentionally so.

I chose to shell out to git because it's fast, stable, and has great cross-platform support. Tools like go-git and libgit2 are interesting (and I’ve looked into them), but they come with their own tradeoffs like performance, features, and build complexity.

That said, I totally get the curiosity — thanks for the discussion!

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