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**Grit is no longer maintained. Check out libgit2/rugged.** Grit gives you object oriented read/write access to Git repositories via Ruby.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 4 stories, 9 comments · first 2010-08-31 · latest 2026-06-10

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  1. Grit was the name of a _Ruby_ implementation of git way back when: https://github.com/mojombo/grit/ . I believe it's actually what GitHub was built on then.
    comment by anonova · 2026-06-10 · in Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents
  2. And the first commit: https://github.com/mojombo/grit/commit/634396b2f541a9f2d58b0...
    comment by dgellow · 2025-06-12 · in Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub
  3. While we are doing cool GitHub repo IDs, the first is here: https://api.github.com/repositories/1 https://github.com/mojombo/grit
    comment by 8organicbits · 2025-06-11 · in Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub
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    Grit – the first repository on GitHub
    story by pierreneter · 2018-12-18 · 0 comments
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    The very first GitHub commit, committed 10 days before the author joined GitHub
    story by bokenator · 2016-06-27 · 1 comment
  6. …to git repos both coincidentally named the exact same thing: python: github.com/rsgalloway/grit ruby: github.com/mojombo/grit
    comment by rsgalloway · 2014-03-17 · in Self-hosted Git Server
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    Grit - Object oriented read/write access to Git repositories via Ruby
    story by madmax108 · 2013-05-26 · 0 comments
  8. Are you referencing Grit? https://github.com/mojombo/grit
    comment by cookrn · 2013-04-20 · in Why the use of GPL is declining
  9. …basis, and we initially built it around our own needs. Right now our code is tightly tied to grit ( https://github.com/mojombo/grit/ ). We plan on moving off of grit at some point (perhaps to libgit2/rugged), and that would be a good time…
    comment by kingfishr · 2012-06-28 · in Show HN: Barkeep, the friendly code review system
  10. …http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/git?sort=votes&#38... if you need low level access https://github.com/mojombo/grit could you elaborate, what your expectations are, I can give pointers or share some of my code
    comment by senthilnayagam · 2011-05-21 · in Ask HN: Any good git parser/data analysis tools out there?
  11. "It doesn't have a library for efficient in-process access" https://github.com/mojombo/grit
    comment by WALoeIII · 2010-11-22 · in Git as a NoSQL datastore
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    Ask HN: To git or not to git
    story by lfborjas · 2010-09-13 · 7 comments
  13. …http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll http://github.com/mojombo/god http://github.com/mojombo/bert http://github.com/mojombo/grit
    comment by mrduncan · 2010-08-31 · in GitHub launches Pull Requests 2.0