Python Git Module experiences? [closed]

Answer 1

I'd recommend pygit2 - it uses the excellent libgit2 bindings

Answer 2

For the sake of completeness, http://github.com/alex/pyvcs/ is an abstraction layer for all dvcs's. It uses dulwich, but provides interop with the other dvcs's.

Answer 3

PTBNL's Answer is quite perfect for me. I make a little more for Windows user.

import time
import subprocess
def gitAdd(fileName, repoDir):
    cmd = 'git add ' + fileName
    pipe = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, cwd=repoDir,stdout = subprocess.PIPE,stderr = subprocess.PIPE )
    (out, error) = pipe.communicate()
    print out,error
    pipe.wait()
    return 

def gitCommit(commitMessage, repoDir):
    cmd = 'git commit -am "%s"'%commitMessage
    pipe = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, cwd=repoDir,stdout = subprocess.PIPE,stderr = subprocess.PIPE )
    (out, error) = pipe.communicate()
    print out,error
    pipe.wait()
    return 
def gitPush(repoDir):
    cmd = 'git push '
    pipe = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, cwd=repoDir,stdout = subprocess.PIPE,stderr = subprocess.PIPE )
    (out, error) = pipe.communicate()
    pipe.wait()
    return 

temp=time.localtime(time.time())
uploaddate= str(temp[0])+'_'+str(temp[1])+'_'+str(temp[2])+'_'+str(temp[3])+'_'+str(temp[4])

repoDir='d:\\c_Billy\\vfat\\Programming\\Projector\\billyccm' # your git repository , windows your need to use double backslash for right directory.
gitAdd('.',repoDir )
gitCommit(uploaddate, repoDir)
gitPush(repoDir)

Answer 4

An updated answer reflecting changed times:

GitPython currently is the easiest to use. It supports wrapping of many git plumbing commands and has pluggable object database (dulwich being one of them), and if a command isn't implemented, provides an easy api for shelling out to the command line. For example:

repo = Repo('.')
repo.checkout(b='new_branch')

This calls:

bash$ git checkout -b new_branch

Dulwich is also good but much lower level. It's somewhat of a pain to use because it requires operating on git objects at the plumbing level and doesn't have nice porcelain that you'd normally want to do. However, if you plan on modifying any parts of git, or use git-receive-pack and git-upload-pack, you need to use dulwich.

Answer 5

Here's a really quick implementation of "git status":

import os
import string
from subprocess import *

repoDir = '/Users/foo/project'

def command(x):
    return str(Popen(x.split(' '), stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0])

def rm_empty(L): return [l for l in L if (l and l!="")]

def getUntracked():
    os.chdir(repoDir)
    status = command("git status")
    if "# Untracked files:" in status:
        untf = status.split("# Untracked files:")[1][1:].split("\n")
        return rm_empty([x[2:] for x in untf if string.strip(x) != "#" and x.startswith("#\t")])
    else:
        return []

def getNew():
    os.chdir(repoDir)
    status = command("git status").split("\n")
    return [x[14:] for x in status if x.startswith("#\tnew file:   ")]

def getModified():
    os.chdir(repoDir)
    status = command("git status").split("\n")
    return [x[14:] for x in status if x.startswith("#\tmodified:   ")]

print("Untracked:")
print( getUntracked() )
print("New:")
print( getNew() )
print("Modified:")
print( getModified() )

Answer 6

Maybe it helps, but Bazaar and Mercurial are both using dulwich for their Git interoperability.

Dulwich is probably different than the other in the sense that's it's a reimplementation of git in python. The other might just be a wrapper around Git's commands (so it could be simpler to use from a high level point of view: commit/add/delete), it probably means their API is very close to git's command line so you'll need to gain experience with Git.