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		dcre on June 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitUp makes Git painless Does this mean they're using libgit2, or what? > Because it bypasses the Git binary tool and interacts directly with the repo database, GitUp is vastly more reliable than other Git clients and often faster than the command line.

swisspol on June 3, 2015 [–]

GitUp uses a subset of libgit2 for the core low-level functions (credited in the About panel and I've been contributing to it for some time).

Then on top of it is an extensive toolkit I built in a few months for repo manipulation and rendering.

dcre on June 3, 2015 | [–]

Thanks!

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