I've added Dulwich to the Git Wiki

I've added Dulwich to the Git Wiki

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi people,

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

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.

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.

Ciao,
Dscho

P.S.: In related news, it seems that dotGit -- which _is_ linked on the 
Git Wiki, at least -- progresses rather nicely, which is pretty awesome, 
given that we have _two_ failed GSoC projects under our belt which wanted 
to do the same.  However, dotGit could do with some more visibility on 
this list, too, methinks.

Re: I've added Dulwich to the Git Wiki

[Jelmer Vernooij]

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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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Re: I've added Dulwich to the Git Wiki

[Adeodato Simó]

* Johannes Schindelin [Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:42:38 +0100]:

> Hi people,

> just got aware of the Dulwich project, which purports to be a pure Python 
> Git engine.

Interesting.

> 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.

Unfortunately, the Dulwich repository contains Git repositories within,
so the resulting repository is not valid. I guess one could drop those
when converting.

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Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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Re: I've added Dulwich to the Git Wiki

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

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

For higher visibility, I also added these to the Wiki.

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: I've added Dulwich to the Git Wiki

[David Aguilar]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> --
> Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/
> Jabber: jelmer@jabber.fsfe.org
>

Hello

This sounds like a great project.

I've talked with the authors of GitPython in the past and I believe
the reason it was never mentioned here was that they were probably too
shy or intimidated (you guys are pretty hardcore ;-) ).

Anyways, as you said, GitPython is purely a wrapper around git
commands.  BTW, git is bloody fast so it's actually not that bad and
works pretty well.

GitPython's license is the New BSD license and thus it can't use git
code nor could it use libgit2.  I think the best route for a useful
Python module would be to wrap something like libgit2 which aims to be
a true library for git.  If that's the goals for Dulwich then all the
better.  If not (and it instead aims to be a pure-Python
implementation) then that's cool too, but for performance reasons I
think the community would best be served by pursuing a core git
library with various language bindings built on top of it.

In any case, this sounds like a neat development and it does seem like
the goals are slightly different then the existing GitPython module.
GitPython was basically a port of the Ruby Grit library, which also
just wraps git commands.  I'll keep my eye on this and see if there's
anywhere I can  help.

-- 
    David