git-good

Just a simple git client using electron and nodegit, focus on lightweight and performance

Build from source

Follow instructions from https://github.com/nodegit/nodegit.

Linux

JOBS=max npm_config_openssl_bin_url=skip pnpm run electron-rebuild
pnpm run dist

Arch Linux

PKGBUILD is available from https://github.com/weedz/git-good-pkgbuild.

Ubuntu/debian

To successfully build/link nodegit on linux you will need the following packages:

build-essential
libssh-dev
libkrb5-dev

Windows

Install https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg (C and C++ package manager for windows), needed for openssl dependency. Then install the openssl package with:

> vcpgk install openssl

vcpkg

Follow instuctions here, https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.

1. Clone to something like C:\dev\vcpkg. And run the "bootstrap" script.
2. On windows we need openssl@1.1.1. In order to install this with vcpkg we need a vcpkg.json file. Create the following file in C:\dev:

   {
        "dependencies": [
            "openssl"
        ],
        "builtin-baseline": "2ac61f87f69f0484b8044f95ab274038fbaf7bdd",
        "overrides": [
            {
                "name": "openssl",
                "version-string": "1.1.1n"
            }
        ]
    }

   (What is builtin-baseline, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcpkg/users/examples/versioning.getting-started#builtin-baseline) And run .\vcpkg\vcpkg.exe install in C:\dev.
3. Make sure to use correct Visual Studio version, https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#on-windows. Does not build with msvs2022. Need msvs2019: npm config set msvs_version 2019
4. Seems like the "postinstall" script for nodegit will fail on windows. But the electron-rebuild script will succeed.

Start

Install node modules:

$ pnpm install

Then run

$ pnpm run build

to bundle javascript-files and move assets to the dist/ directory.

Now run

$ pnpm run dist

to compile all the native dependencies etc. You can run this with CC="ccache gcc" JOBS=max pnpm run dist (omit CC="ccache gcc" if you don't have ccache installed) to speed up compile time.