Groups

• annotated_commit
  A commit and information about how it was looked up by the user.
• apply
  Apply patches to the working directory or index
• attr
  Attribute management routines
• blame
  Specify a file's most recent changes per-line
• blob
  A blob represents a file in a git repository.
• branch
  Branch creation and handling
• buffer
  A data structure to return data to callers
• cert
  TLS and SSH certificate handling
• checkout
  Update the contents of the working directory
• cherrypick
  Cherry-pick the contents of an individual commit
• clone
  Clone a remote repository to the local disk
• commit
  A representation of a set of changes in the repository
• common
  Base platform functionality
• config
  Per-repository, per-user or per-system configuration
• credential
  Authentication and credential management
• credential_helpers
  Utility functions for credential management
• deprecated
  Deprecated functions and values
• describe
  Describe a commit in reference to tags
• diff
  Indicate the differences between two versions of the repository
• email
  Produce email-ready patches
• errors
  Error handling routines and variables
• filter
  Filters modify files during checkout or commit
• global
  libgit2 library initializer and shutdown functionality
• graph
  Graph traversal routines
• ignore
  Ignore particular untracked files
• index
  Index (aka "cache" aka "staging area")
• indexer
  Packfile indexing
• mailmap
  Mailmaps provide alternate email addresses for users
• merge
  Merge re-joins diverging branches of history
• message
  Commit messages
• net
  Low-level networking functionality
• notes
  Notes are metadata attached to an object
• object
  Objects are blobs (files), trees (directories), commits, and annotated tags
• odb
  An object database manages the storage of git objects
• odb_backend
  Object database backends manage the storage of git objects
• oid
  Object IDs
• oidarray
  An array of object IDs
• pack
  Git pack management routines
• patch
  Patches store the textual diffs in a delta
• pathspec
  Specifiers for path matching
• proxy
  TLS proxies
• rebase
  Rebase manipulates commits, placing them on a new parent
• refdb
  A database for references (branches and tags)
• reflog
  Reference logs store how references change
• refs
  References point to a commit; generally these are branches and tags
• refspec
  Refspecs map local references to remote references
• remote
  Remotes are where local repositories fetch from and push to
• repository
  The repository stores revisions for a source tree
• reset
  Reset will update the local repository to a prior state
• revert
  Cherry-pick the inverse of a change to "undo" its effects
• revparse
  Parse the textual revision information
• revwalk
  Traverse (walk) the commit graph (revision history)
• signature
  Signatures are the actor in a repository and when they acted
• stash
  Stashes stores some uncommitted state in the repository
• status
  Status indicates how a user has changed the working directory and index
• strarray
  An array of strings for the user to free
• submodule
  Submodules place another repository's contents within this one
• tag
  A (nearly) immutable pointer to a commit; useful for versioning
• trace
  Tracing functionality to introspect libgit2 in your application
• transaction
  Transactional reference handling
• transport
  Transports are the low-level mechanism to connect to a remote server
• tree
  Trees are collections of files and folders to make up the repository hierarchy
• types
  libgit2 base & compatibility types
• version
  The version of libgit2
• worktree
  Additional working directories for a repository

System Groups (Advanced)

• alloc
  Custom memory allocators
• commit
  Low-level Git commit creation
• commit_graph
  Commit graphs store information about commit relationships
• config
  Custom configuration database backends
• credential
  Low-level credentials implementation
• diff
  Low-level diff utilities
• email
  Advanced git email creation routines
• errors
  Advanced error handling
• filter
  Custom filter backends and plugins
• hashsig
  Signatures for file similarity comparison
• index
  Low-level index manipulation routines
• mempack
  A custom object database backend for storing objects in-memory
• merge
  Custom merge drivers
• midx
  Incremental multi-pack indexes
• odb_backend
  Object database backends for custom object storage
• openssl
  Custom OpenSSL functionality
• path
  Custom path handling
• refdb_backend
  Custom reference database backends for refs storage
• refs
  Low-level git reference creation
• remote
  Low-level remote functionality for custom transports
• repository
  Custom repository handling
• stream
  Streaming file I/O functionality
• transport
  Custom transport registration interfaces and functions