# GitoxideLabs/gitoxide

An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git

Repository: https://github.com/GitoxideLabs/gitoxide
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gitoxide
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: git, cli, blazingly-fast, built-with-rust, version-control
Last push: 2026-08-26T20:01:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3009, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 9, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 1142}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 11870, forks 535 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:50.350658+00:00)

## What it is
Gitoxide is a pure Rust implementation of Git, usable as the `gix` library crate for building Git-powered applications or as `gix`/`ein` command-line tools. It emphasizes correctness, performance, and safety, though some features like push and rebase are still incomplete.

## Use cases
- read and write git repositories from rust
- parse git objects and refs programmatically
- replace libgit2 with a pure rust git library
- clone and fetch git repositories in rust
- inspect git history and commit graphs
- read and write .git index and config files

## When to choose
- you need a safe, fast, memory-safe Git implementation in Rust without C dependencies
- you're building Rust applications that need read access to Git repositories
- you want fine-grained plumbing-level access to Git internals

## When to avoid
- you need full Git feature parity such as push, rebase, or merge of commits
- you want a stable CLI for scripts - the binaries are explicitly unstable
- you need a drop-in replacement for the git command-line client

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: version-control, cli, developer-tools
- domain: version-control, developer-tools
- platform: rust, cross-platform, cli
- tags: git, gix, pure-rust, libgit2-alternative, git2, command-line

## Member repositories
- GitoxideLabs/gitoxide (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:50.350658+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 2026-08-29T17:15:14.800000+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/GitoxideLabs/gitoxide (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:50.350658+00:00, sha 60f03e418e21)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/gitoxide (fetched 2026-08-29T08:13:02.621407+00:00, sha 336789f51384)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.