Advantages that Git# (GitSharp) will bring over current alternatives on Windows?

Question

With their August 2010 release (they have a very clean road-map on their site), what are the advantages Git# (or GitSharp) and applications based on it have over current alternatives on Windows? I mean advantages that could not have been possible without Git#.

Edit: Question wasn't framed properly.

Answer 1

I'm not sure that it makes sense to talk about advantages of one over the other, given that they are completely different things: MSysGit is a program to be used by humans, Git# is a library to be used by machines.

That's like asking what the advantages are of a slice of pizza over the International Space Station.

Answer 2

For the end user it doesn't make a difference except that GitSharp isn't complete yet and therefor is not able to provide all the git features.

For the applications programmer it does make a huge difference because you can access a git repository via a clean and simple API and do not need to format command line commands, start msysgit in a seperate process and parse the output.

Answer 3

We want a library to reduce startup overhead of launching a process and avoid parsing result from stdout. That's what GitSharp does in a high level way.

I can see when a lot of git.exe launch at the same time (like CruiseControl.NET automatic build), they significantly slow down my PC.