Should `isAGitDirectory` be public?

[samskiter]

I can't find any use of it. Should it be a public class method of GTRepository?

[joshaber]

Hah, yeah, and it's almost certainly gonna be wrong in a lot of situations. A PR to 🔥 it would be great 😄

[samskiter]

Ah I see. It's an old method. it's not currently public, i just wondered if it should be as it could be pretty useful

[joshaber]

It seems likely that libgit2 has some function like that that we should use instead.

[pietbrauer]

What I did in my app is to check if [GTRepository initWithURL:error:] and check for the libgit2 error which is returned if it is not a repository. I tried both ways, the isAGitDirectory check and checking for the error, they both result in the same behaviour.

[joshaber]

Yeah, I'd expect -initWithURL:error: to be more future-safe.