This package provides bindings to libgit2. The modules are organized all under the Git module where the submodules correspond to all the headers in the include of libgit2.

The root Git module also contains helper functions for common tasks. These let you deal with OCaml values rather than dealing with the Ctypes library.

Since I work on OS X primarily, my first goal is to have this working transparently and cleanly on that platform first.

I haven't submitted to opam yet, but this works right now for OS X users.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/fxfactorial/ocaml-libgit2
cd ocaml-libgit2
make install

To do a sanity check of everything working, try the following.

in test.ml

open Git
    
let () =
  init ();
  "libgit's version is: " ^ git_library_version () |> print_endline

…and then compile that with

ocamlfind ocamlopt -package ocaml-libgit2 -linkpkg test.ml -o SanityCheck
./SanityCheck

or if bytecode is your thing

ocamlfind ocamlc -custom -package ocaml-libgit2 test.ml -linkpkg -o SanityCheck

If all went well, no DLL errors, then congrats. This most likely means everything is correct.

I'm trying to expose as much of the API as I can and the naming is 1-1 between the OCaml side and C. If lost then look at libgit2's own docs.