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"A vendor neutral git API"
Yeah, a git executable client.

I'm not sure why it wasn't made to use a git client in the first place. 
I like the idea of KiCad being smart about retrieving the footprints 
from github, I'm just not sure why it needed to use the github APIs that 
only work with github. (Does it?)
Seems to me that the repo system to use could easily be a list of git 
clone URLs

Like, I said, I have no stock in this myself, and I don't really know 
how it works currently.
I am curious, though, why it wasn't chosen to work that way in the first 
place.

On 8/17/2015 3:39 PM, Matthew Beckler wrote:
> Getting back to the question about adding gitlab support to the github 
> plugin, does anyone know if there is any vendor-neutral git API that 
> could be used on any publicly-accessible git repository? Perhaps it 
> wouldn't be too difficult to refactor the github plugin into a generic 
> git plugin? I will try to look into the github plugin to see how it 
> works.
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew