[Exist-open] A git module for eXist?

[Roth, M. <mat...@ya...>]

Hi List,

I am in the process of updating an exist-3.x instance to an exist-6.x instance. We would like to be able to directly clone, branch, and commit to a locally hosted git repository. In our eXist-3.x instance we do most of this via subversion and the old SVN module. But in the last decade we have migrated a lot of our local repositories to git and think this would be a good time to migrate away from this old dependency.

The problem I am running into is I don't see any modules that currently replicate the same features of the old SVN module in git. I see two abandoned projects.


  1.
 eXgit [0<https://github.com/shabanovd/eXgit/>] - This seemed to have the most community support
  2.
 eXgit [1<https://github.com/dariok/eXgit/tree/master>] - Yeah, same name, different project. The xar would not work in 6.2.0, and the instructions for using the jar also seemed to not function, nor generate any log messages [2<https://github.com/eXist-db/documentation/issues/385>].


And two xquery modules that are designed to work with github.


  1.
Github-xq [3<https://github.com/eXist-db/github-xq>]- Winona's excellent module, but due to restrictions on our data github is not an option
  2.
Tuttle [4<https://github.com/eeditiones/tuttle>] - I suppose I could self-host gitlab, but not sure excited about a nodejs dep.


So now I am left with a few questions


  1.
Is there a module for working with git I cannot locate?

  2.
If not, Why is there no longer a well maintained module for working with git or svn in eXist.
     *
Is there no community desire for this?
     *
 Is this an anti-pattern, or might there be a more preferred way to handle this?

  3.
If I were to try to do something myself, I would want to create an EXPath Package or would I be wanting to create an extension such the Example in extensions/modules/example [5<https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/tree/develop/extensions/modules/example>]?
     *
Or am I misunderstanding and these are similar? From my understanding the latter requires it being built and bundled with exist.

Best,
Matt



[0] https://github.com/shabanovd/eXgit/
[1] https://github.com/dariok/eXgit/tree/master
[2] https://github.com/eXist-db/documentation/issues/385
[3] https://github.com/eXist-db/github-xq
[4] https://github.com/eeditiones/tuttle
[5] https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/tree/develop/extensions/modules/example