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This is the python-git project.

It aims to give an interface to git repos that doesn't call out to git

directly. It is probably going to be implemented in pure python.

Currently can read blobs, trees and commits from the files. It reads both

legacy and new headers. However it is untested for anything but the simple

case.

Can also understand a little about the repository format.

The testsuite uses the nosetests program from Turbogears, as I got annoyed

trying to set up unittest.

Open up a repo by passing it the path to the .git dir. You can then ask for

HEAD with repo.head() or a ref with repo.ref(name). Both return the SHA id

they currently point to. You can then grab this object with

repo.get_object(sha).

For the actual objects the ShaFile.from_file(filename) will return the object

stored in the file whatever it is. To ensure you get the correct type then

call {Blob,Tree,Commit}.from_file(filename). I will add repo methods to do

this for you with file lookup soon.

There is also support for creating blobs. Blob.from_string(string) will create

a blob object from the string. You can then call blob.sha() to get the sha

object for this blob, and hexdigest() on that will get its ID. There is

currently no method that allows you to write it out though.

Everything is currently done with assertions, where much of it should probably

be exceptions. This was merely done for expediency. If you hit an assertion,

it either means you have done something wrong, there is corruption, or

you are trying an unsupported operation.

If you have any comments or questions you can contact me at 

jw+debian@jameswestby.net

James Westby