# danlucraft/git.js

pure-Javascript Git implementation

Repository: https://github.com/danlucraft/git.js
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gitjs
Homepage: http://danlucraft.com/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2019-02-28T02:04:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5680, "days_push": 2744, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1303, forks 78 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:18.357515+00:00)

## What it is
A pure-JavaScript implementation of Git, providing a Node.js command-line client and an in-browser repo API that reads Git repositories over the dumb or smart HTTP protocols. It supports reading commit history, listing branches, showing objects, and rendering HTML object diffs.

## Use cases
- read git repository data from javascript
- browse git object graph in the browser
- show git commit log from node.js
- fetch git objects over http protocol
- render html diffs of git objects

## When to choose
- you need to parse or read git repositories in pure JavaScript without native dependencies
- you want an in-browser git repo viewer using the HTTP protocol

## When to avoid
- you need to write to git repositories (committing, branching are unimplemented)
- you need a maintained, production-ready git library
- you need full git command support

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: version-control, cli, parser
- domain: version-control, developer-tools
- platform: browser, cli
- tags: git, pure-javascript, git-protocol, repo-viewer, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- danlucraft/git.js (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:18.357515+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:51:11.739115+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/danlucraft/git.js (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:18.357515+00:00, sha 54c43a067fa5)
  - homepage: http://danlucraft.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:09:33.033351+00:00, sha 5520c7d3ffa1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.