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wmf 56 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Moving beyond fork() + exec()

libgit2 exists. You could imagine communicating with some gitd over a pipe/socket but I don't know why that would be a good idea. Short of that you have to spawn processes.

trumpdong 56 days ago [–]

On Windows maybe it would be a COM server, using IPC built into the OS. The client sees it like a local function call.

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