Migrate to NodeGit

[mittalyashu]

Introduction

NodeGit is asynchronous native Node bindings to libgit2.

Migrate from simple-git package to NodeGit package.

• Before initializing the process of migrating to Nodegit, we got into an issue Fix nodegit package installation #3512.

Feature-based PR

Splitting the migration of features in different PR will help to avoid getting into a bigger issue in later stages and easy to debug the bugs.

• Initialize repository - Initialize repository (nodegit) #3592, Settings to auto initialize non-git repository #3596
• Open repository -
• Clone repository - NodeGit + SQLite migration : implement clone feature #3589
• Working changes
• Commit changes
• Code difference preview
• Commit history - Commit history - Git log (nodegit) #3579
• Fetch changes
• Push changes
• Pull changes
• Add remote url
• Remove simple-git package

Links

• https://www.nodegit.org

[mittalyashu]

Issues to close

• AppImage #3550

[Publicker]

Will be fine if you attach the PR #3579 to Commit history!