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Is r-lib/gert beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to r-lib/gert to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
162
Forks
39
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
30
Dominant language
R
License
No license data
Last GitHub push
Oct 1, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 20, 2026
No contributing guide
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
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No merged PRs in 30d

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  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
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  • broken link to libgit2
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    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 85/100

    r-lib/gert#284 ·

  • Support for host aliases in ~/.ssh/config
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    r-lib/gert#283 ·

  • documentation and functionality for git submodule update?
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    r-lib/gert#275 · 4 comments ·

  • Cite Alpine target
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    r-lib/gert#250 ·

  • feat: support sorting in `git_tag_list()`
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    r-lib/gert#247 ·

  • `git_add()` slow
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    r-lib/gert#242 · 3 comments ·

  • `git_push()` silently succeeds with protected branches, expecting failure
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    r-lib/gert#236 · 5 comments ·

  • libgit2 not recognizing proxy variable
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    r-lib/gert#210 · 6 comments ·

  • FR: Function to determine whether git is treating a file as text or binary
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    r-lib/gert#205 ·

  • Empty merges not recorded
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    r-lib/gert#198 ·

  • gert and git do not agree on what order to read the config
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    r-lib/gert#196 · 4 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • clone sometimes randomly hangs on macos
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    r-lib/gert#190 · 6 comments ·

  • Commits made with gert are not gpg signed
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    • Is something wrong?
    documentation feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    r-lib/gert#186 · 1 comment ·

  • Gitlab Support
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    r-lib/gert#183 · 4 comments ·

  • Add default option to return author date in `gert::git_log`
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    r-lib/gert#176 ·

  • Add dereference option to `gert::git_tag_list`
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    feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    r-lib/gert#175 ·

  • Trying to make gert:::git_submodule_update with custom gitlab instance
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    r-lib/gert#174 ·

  • Support for getting specified versions of submodules
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    r-lib/gert#165 ·

  • Support git-lfs?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    r-lib/gert#160 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

  • gert::git_diff != git diff
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    feature

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    r-lib/gert#152 · 4 comments ·

  • Access token as string not working for enterprise Github and Gitlab
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    r-lib/gert#145 ·

  • ask gert about proxy?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    r-lib/gert#122 · 28 comments ·

  • include current branch in output of git_status()
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    r-lib/gert#121 · 1 comment ·

  • Need more verbosity in CI
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    r-lib/gert#103 · 1 comment ·

  • git_log() hides commits to branches before merge
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    r-lib/gert#99 · 4 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Control over verbosity
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    r-lib/gert#90 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Return values
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    r-lib/gert#82 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Test with local upstream branch
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    r-lib/gert#81 · 1 comment ·

  • Ahead / behind
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    r-lib/gert#65 · 5 comments ·

  • Add function to determine number of lines by each contributor
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    r-lib/gert#27 · 1 comment ·

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