Hi Mario,
The intention is that Xgit.Repository.OnDisk is compatible with command-line git. The approach I take when building disk-related components is to run the equivalent operations in command-line git and Xgit and folder-diff the two. For example:
That said, I’ll admit that at this early stage of the project I’m not aiming for 100% coverage of all variations of every piece of the on-disk format. As an example, I’m working on writing and parsing the .git/index file. For the moment, I only support version 2 because that’s what’s generated every time I do anything locally.
My primary goal for the on-disk version of things is to prove that I’ve got the abstractions right and that I can implement the core data model of git correctly.
That said, to anybody who wants to fill in some of those edge cases (i.e. versions 3 and 4 of index file format): I will happily review a PR. (Parse index file is mostly done; writing index files is my work-in-progress this week. I expect to finish that feature by the weekend and have an 0.1.6 release out then.)
