Can you use libgit2 to clone a git repository?

Question

Is there a way to create a new clone of a git repo using libgit2? From the libgit2 usage guide (http://libgit2.github.com/api.html), various examples docs (http://schacon.github.com/libgit2-examples/ etc.) and the "repository" libgit2 api docs (http://libgit2.github.com/libgit2/group__git__repository.html) and other reading... I only see references to either opening an existing git repo dir, git_repository_open, or creating a new one, git_repository_init.

Is there something obvious I am missing? Perhaps the api equivalent of "git clone GIT-REPO-URL" is git_repository_init followed by ... ?

Answer 1

Libgit2 is indeed a work in progress... but it looks like things are moving fast :)

It is now possible to fetch from a remote repository. You can find some pointers to code samples in this StackOverflow answer.

Update

The clone feature has just been merged into the libgit2 repository.

• clone.h header
• sample code usage in examples/network/clone.c

Answer 2

I've contributed this feature to the python binding of libgit2 ;)

Now you can clone in python as well.

repo_path = "git://github.com/libgit2/pygit2.git"
path = "/tmp/pygit2"
repo = clone_repository(repo_path, path)

Hope it helps!