Re: Using git from Python

From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: May 8, 2008, 04:23 UTC
Message-ID: <402731c90805072123g764a3d56ia30035381c0950dd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87lk2l4fj5.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net>

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> wrote:

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>     Asheesh> That's fine ... but since I figured others may have done
>     Asheesh> this also
>
>  As far as I can tell, there is exactly no downside to simply forking a
>  subprocess.  Why are you trying to avoid that?
>
>     Asheesh> raises Exceptions when the git commands fail for some
>     Asheesh> reason.
>
>  If Popen doesn't already raise an exception when the child process
>  fails, then it's surely a simple matter to check the exit code, and
>  raise the exception yourself.
>

There have been many questions about this lately. For the impatient, grab git.py from the python-git directory of the ugit project:

http://repo.or.cz/w/ugit.git?a=tree;f=python-git;h=1ef75cef116ce750b5bdf5dd38a4cf1ab2c1ce79;hb=b393c428cf156a7c5c75b18379676dbb534a76d8

http://repo.or.cz/w/ugit.git

I will work on making git.py a separate python-git project, upload it to pypi, and create a separate repo for it very soon.

The interface is blazingly simple. It is a 1:1 correspondance to the git command line interface. e.g. git.commit(F='/some/path.txt', s=True)

There are many examples in the t/ directory and within the ugit project itself. Let me know offline if you have any questions. The documentation could probably use some work.

-- 
 David