I started working on GitPython in 2009, back in the days when Python was 'my thing' and I had great plans with it. Of course, back in the days, I didn't really know what I was doing and this shows in many places. Somewhat similar to Python this happens to be 'good enough', but at the same time is deeply flawed and broken beyond repair.
By now, GitPython is widely used and I am sure there is a good reason for that, it's something to be proud of and happy about. The community is maintaining the software and is keeping it relevant for which I am absolutely grateful. For the time to come I am happy to continue maintaining GitPython, remaining hopeful that one day it won't be needed anymore.
More than 15 years after my first meeting with 'git' I am still in excited about it, and am happy to finally have the tools and probably the skills to scratch that itch of mine: implement git in a way that makes tool creation a piece of cake for most.
If you like the idea and want to learn more, please head over to gitoxide, an implementation of 'git' in Rust.
GitPython is a python library used to interact with git repositories, high-level like git-porcelain, or low-level like git-plumbing.
It provides abstractions of git objects for easy access of repository data often backed by calling the git command-line program.
This project is in maintenance mode, which means that
The project is open to contributions of all kinds, as well as new maintainers.
GitPython needs the git executable to be installed on the system and available in your PATH for most operations. If it is not in your PATH, you can help GitPython find it by setting the GIT_PYTHON_GIT_EXECUTABLE=<path/to/git> environment variable.
The list of dependencies are listed in ./requirements.txt and ./test-requirements.txt. The installer takes care of installing them for you.
If you have downloaded the source code:
or if you want to obtain a copy from the Pypi repository:
Both commands will install the required package dependencies.
A distribution package can be obtained for manual installation at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GitPython.
If you like to clone from source, you can do it like so:
git clone https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython git submodule update --init --recursive ./init-tests-after-clone.shLeakage of System Resources
GitPython is not suited for long-running processes (like daemons) as it tends to leak system resources. It was written in a time where destructors (as implemented in the __del__ method) still ran deterministically.
In case you still want to use it in such a context, you will want to search the codebase for __del__ implementations and call these yourself when you see fit.
Another way assure proper cleanup of resources is to factor out GitPython into a separate process which can be dropped periodically.
See Issue #525.
Important: Right after cloning this repository, please be sure to have executed git fetch --tags followed by the ./init-tests-after-clone.sh script in the repository root. Otherwise you will encounter test failures.
On Windows, make sure you have git-daemon in your PATH. For MINGW-git, the git-daemon.exe exists in Git\mingw64\libexec\git-core\; CYGWIN has no daemon, but should get along fine with MINGW's.
Ensure testing libraries are installed. In the root directory, run: pip install -r test-requirements.txt
To lint, run: pre-commit run --all-files
To typecheck, run: mypy -p git
To test, run: pytest
For automatic code formatting run: black git
Configuration for flake8 is in the ./.flake8 file.
Configurations for mypy, pytest and coverage.py are in ./pyproject.toml.
The same linting and testing will also be performed against different supported python versions upon submitting a pull request (or on each push if you have a fork with a "main" branch and actions enabled).
Please have a look at the contributions file.
gitpython tagimport git; git.__version__)python --version)VERSION filedoc/source/changes.rst changelog file was updatedgit tag -s <version> to tag the version in Gitmake releaseNote that what follows is deprecated and future releases won't be signed anymore. More details about how it came to that can be found in this issue.
Please only use releases from pypi as you can verify the respective source tarballs.
This script shows how to verify the tarball was indeed created by the authors of this project:
curl https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/09/bc/ae32e07e89cc25b9e5c793d19a1e5454d30a8e37d95040991160f942519e/GitPython-3.1.8-py3-none-any.whl > gitpython.whl curl https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/09/bc/ae32e07e89cc25b9e5c793d19a1e5454d30a8e37d95040991160f942519e/GitPython-3.1.8-py3-none-any.whl.asc > gitpython-signature.asc gpg --verify gitpython-signature.asc gitpython.whl
which outputs
gpg: Signature made Fr 4 Sep 10:04:50 2020 CST gpg: using RSA key 27C50E7F590947D7273A741E85194C08421980C9 gpg: Good signature from "Sebastian Thiel (YubiKey USB-C) <byronimo@gmail.com>" [ultimate] gpg: aka "Sebastian Thiel (In Rust I trust) <sebastian.thiel@icloud.com>" [ultimate]
You can verify that the keyid indeed matches the release-signature key provided in this repository by looking at the keys details:
gpg --list-packets ./release-verification-key.asc
You can verify that the commit adding it was also signed by it using:
git show --show-signature ./release-verification-key.asc
If you would like to trust it permanently, you can import and sign it:
gpg --import ./release-verification-key.asc gpg --edit-key 4C08421980C9 > sign > save
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