Matthias UrlichsI've merged my current library-ification effort with Junio's current HEAD.
URL: http://netz.smurf.noris.de/git/git.git#libize
There's a Python interface, written using Pyrex. You can now walk object trees natively, with Python:
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>>> import git
>>> e=git.env()
>>> db=e.objdb
>>> c=db.lookup("HEAD").parent[0] # "HEAD^" will work too
>>> t=c.tree
>>> t.entries[0].name'.gitignore'
>>> t["debian"].entries[0].name
'changelog'
>>> t[".gitignore"].data[0:5]
'/git\n'
>>> t[".gitignore"].data.readline()
'/git\n' # this will work tomorrow (I hope)
I have not implemented much beyond that; keeping the code in sync is work, so doing more will have to wait until this gets merged.
I did play with SWIG a bit. It would have simplified interfacing languages other than Python to git. Unfortunately, there were problems:
- refering to objects SWIG did not allocate itself is a nontrivial exercise - so is keeping the Python-visible namespace clean (unless you're using C++ ... probably not something we'd want to subject the git core to ...) - SWIG's error reporting is *scary*. In comparison, Pyrex mostly does the right thing.
If somebody wants to start working on a SWIG/perl/tcl/... interface for the library, be my guest. ;-)
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