LibGit2Sharp

It is actually a C# binding to the libgit2 linkable C Git library.

The original libgit2 library can be downloaded from here.

Other language bindings for libgit2:

Ruby - Rugged
Objective-C - Objective Git
Python - pygit2
PHP - php-git
Lua - luagit2
Delphi - GitForDelphi
Node.js - Gitteh and/or nodegit
Go - go-git
oCaml - libgit2-ocaml
Erlang - Geef
.NET - libgit2net
Haskell - hgit2

What is new in this release:

• Teach RemoteUpdater to update the remote URL
• Introduce ObjectDatabase.CreateTree(Index) and Index.Reset(Tree)
• Add process wide logging feature
• Add process wide SmartSubtransport registration/unregistration
• Expose Index.Clear()

What is new in version 0.21:

• Teach RemoteUpdater to update the remote URL
• Introduce ObjectDatabase.CreateTree(Index) and Index.Reset(Tree)
• Add process wide logging feature
• Add process wide SmartSubtransport registration/unregistration
• Expose Index.Clear()

What is new in version 0.13.0:

• Teach checkout to report notifications
• Create a new repo.Checkout() overload which accepts a Commit object
• Allow ObjectDatabase.CreateBlob() to limit the number of bytes to consume
• Make ObjectDatabase.CreateBlob() accept a Stream
• Introduce repo.Refs.RewriteHistory()
• Introduce repo.Refs.ReachableFrom()
• Introduce TreeDefinition.From(Commit)
• Expose TagFetchMode property on Remote type
• Add CopyNativeDependencies.targets

What is new in version 0.10.0:

• Update working directory on checkout
• New network related features: clone, fetch, push, list remote references
• Expose the heads that have been updated during the last fetch in Repository.Network.FetchHeads
• Introduce Repository.Network.Remotes.IsValidName()
• New .gitignore related features: temporary rules, path checking
• Add support for custom, managed ODB backends
• Add revparse support in Repository.Lookup()
• Improve Repository.Commit(): add merged branches as parents, cleanup merge data
• Introduce Blob.IsBinary
• Add strongly-typed exceptions (NonFastForwardException, UnmergedIndexEntriesException, ...)
• Add basic stashing support: add, retrieve, list and remove
• Add git clean support in Repository.RemoveUntrackedFiles()
• Add shortcut to HEAD in Repository.Refs.Head
• Introduce Repository.Refs.IsValidName()
• Add Repository.Refs.FromGlob() to enumerate references matching a specified glob
• Add support for XDG configuration store
• Make Config.Get() and Config.Delete() able to target a specific store
• Diff.Compare() enhancements: work against workdir and index, consider untracked changes, expose typechanges
• Allow retrieval of the remote of a non-local branch through Branch.Remote

What is new in version v0.9.5:

• Added support to create, retrieve, list and remove object notes.
• Make Repository able to rely on specified global and system config files.

What is new in version v0.9.0:

• Support local tracking branches
• Add an Ignored collection to the RepositoryStatus type
• Expose the relative path of TreeEntries
• Make Repository able to work against specified index and workdir
• Direct creation or Blobs, Trees and Commits without the workdir nor index involvement

What is new in version v0.8.0:

• Additions:
• Add Repository.Reset() and support of Soft and Mixed modes
• Make Repository.Commit() able to amend the current tip of the Head
• Make the constructor of Repository able to open a repository from a working directory path
• Make Repository.Index.RetriveStatus honor the .gitgnore files
• Changes:
• Remove Repository.HasObject()
• Change Repository.Init() to make it return an instance of the Repository type, instead of a string containing the path of the repository
• Update libgit2 binaries to libgit2/libgit2@6d39c0d
• Fixes:
• Reinit a repository doesn't throw anymore
• Embedded libgit2 binaries are now compiled with THREADSAFE=ON flag
• Prevent Repository.Head.IsCurrentRepositoryHead from throwing when the Repository is empty

What is new in version v0.7.0:

• Additions:
• Allow access to System and Global configuration outside the context of a repo
• Add overloads to index methods that accept collection of paths
• Changes:
• Make Index.RetrieveStatus() return native file paths
• Make IndexEntry able to cope with native file paths
• Update libgit2 binaries to libgit2/libgit2@be00b00
• Deprecate Repository.HasObject()
• Bug Fixes:
• Fix the build script to be fully XBuild compatible on Linux/Mono 2.10
• Fix Index.Remove() to correctly handle files which have been deleted and modified in the working directory

What is new in version v0.6.1:

• Changes:
• Update libgit2 binaries to libgit2/libgit2@e3baa3c.
• Fixes:
• Prevent segfault when determining the status a of repository.
• Fix retrieval of buggy status in some (not that rare) cases.

What is new in version v0.6.0:

• Additions:
• Add Configuration.Get() overload that takes key in parts.
• Add tracking branch details.
• Allow creation of commit using signature from configuration files.
• Add Index.Remove().
• Add a string indexer to the Commit and Tree types in order to ease retrieval of TreeEntries.
• Changes:
• Provide default value for non existent configuration setting.
• Change the tree structure into which libgit2 binaries are located.
• Update libgit2 binaries to libgit2/libgit2@28c1451.
• Fixes:
• Prevent enumeration of branches from throwing when the repository contains remote branches.
• Fix Index.Stage(), Index.Unstage().

What is new in version v0.5.0:

• Additions:
• Add Repository.Index.RetrieveStatus()
• Add handling of configuration settings of the repository and retrieval of Remotes
• Changes:
• Can now enumerate from multiple starting points
• While enumerating commits, automatically dereference objects to a commit object id
• Defer resolving of Branch.Tip, Tag.Target and Tag.Annotation
• Replace usage of ApplicationException with LibGit2Exception
• Update libgit2 binaries to libgit2/libgit2@35e9407
• Fixes:
• Prevent enumeration of commits from throwing when starting from a tag which points at a blob or a tree (#62)
• Prevent a branch from being removed if it's the current HEAD
• References are now being enumerated in a ordered way
• Fix Repository.Discover() implementation when no .git folder exists