Re: Using git from Python

["David Aguilar" <davvid@gmail.com>]

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