git-get/README.md

# git-get

## Build

How to build with `libgit2` statically linked into a single executable without dependencies:

- Install development packages for libssh2 and openssl:
  ```
  sudo apt install libssh2-1-dev libssl-dev
  ```

- Inside the `static` folder there's the `git2go` library added as a submodule (pointing to a correct v30 release). 
  This, in turn, contains `libgit2` submodule. To ensure the submodules are cloned run:
  ``` 
  git submodule update --init --recursive
  ```

- Build the static `git2go` library:
  ```
  cd static/git2go && make install-static
  ```

- Ensure our `git-get` module uses the static `git2go` library instead of the one downloaded by Go modules by having
  the following line in `go.mod`:
  ```
  replace github.com/libgit2/git2go/v30 => ./static/git2go
  ```

- Build, install and test `git-get` with `--tags static` flag, eg:
  ```
  go build -i --tags static
  go test --tags static
  ```