Re: I've added Dulwich to the Git Wiki

From: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
Date: Jan 16, 2009, 23:03 UTC
Message-ID: <1232146991.24098.13.camel@ganieda.vernstok.nl>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901162329340.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Hi Johannes,

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 23:42 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> just got aware of the Dulwich project, which purports to be a pure Python 
> Git engine.  I added it here:
> 
> http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools#head-762f9c85c62c555dbb88129a127431ddeeb56191

Thanks! I wasn't actually aware of that wiki page.

> Jelmer, is there a chance you can export the Bazaar repository into a 
> public Git repository?  The Bazaar web-frontend does not even allow me to 
> download a snapshot.

See:

git://git.samba.org/jelmer/dulwich.git

And gitweb: http://git.samba.org/?p=jelmer/dulwich.git;a=summary

> BTW I find it a bit distressing that more and more projects crop up doing 
> substantial and valuable work around Git, but without even bothering to 
> mention it on this list.  There might have been a good chance, too, to 
> avoid having _three_ Python libraries for exactly the same task.

I wasn't aware of PyGit (and its homepage doesn't seem to work), but Python-Git is just a wrapper around the git command line tools, it doesn't parse/write the file formats itself.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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