SSH with Xit: Does Xit require OpenSSH or other SSH clients/daemons?

[axvr]

Hey @xeubie, the Xit project looks really interesting particularly its use as a library, xitdb and Haxy all seem like good candidates for use in a project I'm planning.

I had a question on the following bit of the docs:

No third-party libraries

• [...]
• The only dependencies of xit are a few Zig libraries I wrote myself, as well as the Zig standard library.

For SSH cloning and pushing does Xit require OpenSSH or other SSH clients/daemons or is it entirely SSH self sufficient?

[xeubie]

Yes, xit shells out to ssh. Using a library like libssh2 would be ideal, but it has too many functionality holes compared to OpenSSH that make it unusable for many people. This is something the jujutsu project realized as well. Regarding the text you quoted, I was only talking about library dependencies, not runtime dependencies.