forgejo/vendor/gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v4/COMPATIBILITY.md

Supported Capabilities

Here is a non-comprehensive table of git commands and features whose equivalent is supported by go-git.

Feature	Status	Notes
config
config	✔	Reading and modifying per-repository configuration (.git/config) is supported. Global configuration ($HOME/.gitconfig) is not.
getting and creating repositories
init	✔	Plain init and --bare are supported. Flags --template, --separate-git-dir and --shared are not.
clone	✔	Plain clone and equivalents to --progress, --single-branch, --depth, --origin, --recurse-submodules are supported. Others are not.
basic snapshotting
add	✔	Plain add is supported. Any other flag aren't supported
status	✔
commit	✔
reset	✔
rm	✔
mv	✔
branching and merging
branch	✔
checkout	✔	Basic usages of checkout are supported.
merge	✖
mergetool	✖
stash	✖
tag	✔
sharing and updating projects
fetch	✔
pull	✔	Only supports merges where the merge can be resolved as a fast-forward.
push	✔
remote	✔
submodule	✔
inspection and comparison
show	✔
log	✔
shortlog	(see log)
describe
patching
apply	✖
cherry-pick	✖
diff	✔	Patch object with UnifiedDiff output representation
rebase	✖
revert	✖
debugging
bisect	✖
blame	✔
grep	✔
email
am	✖
apply	✖
format-patch	✖
send-email	✖
request-pull	✖
external systems
svn	✖
fast-import	✖
administration
clean	✔
gc	✖
fsck	✖
reflog	✖
filter-branch	✖
instaweb	✖
archive	✖
bundle	✖
prune	✖
repack	✖
server admin
daemon
update-server-info
advanced
notes	✖
replace	✖
worktree	✖
annotate	(see blame)
gpg
git-verify-commit	✔
git-verify-tag	✔
plumbing commands
cat-file	✔
check-ignore
commit-tree
count-objects
diff-index
for-each-ref	✔
hash-object	✔
ls-files	✔
merge-base	✔	Calculates the merge-base only between two commits, and supports --independent and --is-ancestor modifiers; Does not support --fork-point nor --octopus modifiers.
read-tree
rev-list	✔
rev-parse
show-ref	✔
symbolic-ref	✔
update-index
update-ref
verify-pack
write-tree
protocols
http(s):// (dumb)	✖
http(s):// (smart)	✔
git://	✔
ssh://	✔
file://	✔
custom	✔
other features
gitignore	✔
gitattributes	✖
index version
packfile version
push-certs	✖