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From: "David Aguilar" <davvid@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git Library?
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:58:48 -0700
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Patrick Altman <paltman@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to write a Mac OSX UI for git.
>

git gui works on OSX.
Aside from that, someone's already written one* :-)

    http://repo.or.cz/ugit.git
    http://ugit.sf.net/


>  Is there a documented/undocumented API for interacting with git in process?
> Or would I be better off "shelling out" to the git command line?

Fork/exec.

If you grabbed the ugit modules you could say:

    from ugit import git

    revisions = git.rev_list(all=True).splitlines()

    file = open('msg', 'w')
    file.write("commit message." )
    file.close()

    git.commit(F='msg', s=True)

    etc, etc.

It's pretty much 90%+ of git wrapped in Python.
If a libgit.so did appear one day it would be trivial to swap out the
meta-functions in
git.py and replace them with e.g. swig replacements.  Until then,
forking out works
just fine.

stg also has Python wrapped around git so you could look there too.

-- 
 David


* - okay, I lied. It's PyQt4.  But it does run on OSX and looks just
like any other cocoa app.