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GitElephant is an abstraction layer to manage your git repositories with php

This library officially supports git >= 1.8, older version are supported as well, but with some caveat.

Watch a live example of what you can do with GitElephant, Symfony2 and a git repository...

How it works

GitElephant mostly rely on the git binary to retrieve information about the repository, read the output and create an OOP layer to interact with

Some parts are (or will be) implemented by reading directly inside the .git folder

The api is completely transparent to the end user. You don't have to worry about which method is used.

Requirements

• php >= 5.3.0
• *nix system with git installed

I work on linux, but the lib should work well with every unix system, as far as a git binary is available. I don't have a windows installation to test...if someone want to help...

Installation

composer

To install GitElephant with composer you simply need to create a composer.json in your project root and add:

Then run

You have now GitElephant installed in vendor/cypresslab/gitelephant

And an handy autoload file to include in you project in vendor/autoload.php

How to use

By default GitElephant try to use the git binary on your system.

the Repository class is the main class where you can find every method you need...

Read repository

branches

tags

commits

remotes

status

If you build a GitElephant\Status\Status class, you will get a nice api for getting the actual state of the working tree and staging area.

all this methods returns a PhpCollection of StatusFile objects

a StatusFile instance has all the information about the tree node changes. File names (and new file names for renamed objects), index and working tree status, and also a "git style" description like: added to index or deleted in work tree

Manage repository

You could also use GitElephant to manage your git repositories via PHP.

Your web server user (like www-data) needs to have access to the folder of the git repository

Remote repositories

If you need to access remote repository you have to install the ssh2 extension and pass a new Caller to the repository. this is a new feature...consider this in a testing phase

A versioned tree of files

A git repository is a tree structure versioned in time. So if you need to represent a repository in a, let's say, web browser, you will need a tree representation of the repository, at a given point in history.

Tree class

The Tree class implements ArrayAccess, Countable and Iterator interfaces.

You can use it as an array of git objects.

A Object instance is a php representation of a node in a git tree

You can also pass a tree object to the repository to get its subtree

Diffs

If you want to check a Diff between two commits the Diff class comes in

The Diff class implements ArrayAccess, Countable and Iterator interfaces

You can iterate over DiffObject

A DiffObject is a class that implements ArrayAccess, Countable and Iterator interfaces. It represent a file, folder or submodule changed in the Diff.

Every DiffObject can have multiple chunks of changes. For example:

You can iterate over DiffObject to get DiffChunks. DiffChunks are the last steps of the Diff process, they are a collection of DiffChunkLine Objects

Testing

The library is fully tested with PHPUnit.

Go to the base library folder and install the dev dependencies with composer, and then run the phpunitt test suite

If you want to run the test suite you should have all the dependencies loaded.

Symfony2

There is a GitElephantBundle to use this library inside a Symfony2 project.

Dependencies

• symfony/process
• symfony/filesystem
• symfony/finder
• phpcollection/phpcollection

for tests

• PHPUnit

Platform configuration

Code style

• GitElephant follows the PSR-2 Coding Standard
• I'm using gitflow

Want to contribute?

You are my new hero!

Just remember:

• PSR2 coding standard
• test everything you develop with phpunit
• if you don't use gitflow, just remember to branch from "develop" and send your PR there. Please do not send pull requests on the master branch.

Author

Matteo Giachino (twitter)

Many thanks to all the contributors

Thanks

Many thanks to Linus and all those who have worked/contributed in any way to git. Because it's awesome!!! I can't imagine being a developer without it.

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