ausi / remote-git

0.2.6 2026-01-09 10:51 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.1
• symfony/filesystem: ^5.3 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/process: ^5.3 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0

Requires (Dev)

• amphp/dns: ^v2.4.0
• amphp/socket: ^v2.3.1
• contao/easy-coding-standard: ^6.3.1
• phpstan/phpstan: ^1.0
• phpstan/phpstan-phpunit: ^1.0
• phpstan/phpstan-symfony: ^1.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^9.6.31
• psalm/plugin-phpunit: ^0.19
• slam/phpstan-extensions: ^6.0
• symfony/console: ^5.3 || ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• vimeo/psalm: ^6.14.3

MIT

• Martin Auswöger

• git
• remote
• commit

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-01-09 10:52 UTC

README

This library provides methods to handle git repositories remotely without having to clone the whole repo. It uses the Symfony process component to run the git client.

Usage

<?php
use Ausi\RemoteGit\Repository;
use Ausi\RemoteGit\GitObject\File;
use Ausi\RemoteGit\Exception\ConnectionException;
use Ausi\RemoteGit\Exception\PushCommitException;

$repo = new Repository('ssh://[e-mail]/ausi/remote-git.git');

try {
    $repo->connect();
} catch(ConnectionException $exception) {
    // Unable to connect to the specified server
}

$headCommit = $repo->getBranch('main')->getCommit();

$newTree = $headCommit
    ->getTree()
    ->withFile(
        'example.txt',
        'Example content…',
    )
;

$newCommit = $repo->commitTree($newTree, 'Add example', $headCommit);

try {
    $repo->pushCommit($newCommit, 'main');
} catch(PushCommitException $exception) {
    // Unable to push to the specified remote, e.g. no write access
}

Installation

To install the library use Composer or download the source files from GitHub.

composer require ausi/remote-git

Speed

Speed comparison of cloning https://gitlab.com/linux-kernel/stable.git and reading the contents of a file:

Command	Network	Disk Space	Time
git clone	3.21 GB	4.6 GB	901 s
git clone --depth 1	207 MB	1.4 GB	77 s
git clone -n --depth 1	207 MB	216 MB	46 s
getBranch(…)->getCommit()->getTree()->getFile(…)->getContents()	2.49 MB	2.57 MB	5.8 s

Naturally, this is strongly dependent on many factors like bandwidth and CPU power and should only give a rough idea of this projects purpose, namely reading or writing small bits of data from or to a remote GIT repository.