GitPython :Python Git API

    Scripting Git tasks is made simpler using GitPython. We can use it to create local Git applications. Here is a simple example script to perform initial Git setup for our project directory /home/user/myproject. We have already created a new repository in GitHub with url https://github.com/user/test.git. Run the script as follows

python initwithGit /home/user/myproject https://github.com/dileepnandanam/test.git

# initWithGit.py
import git
import commands
import sys
import os
projectdir=sys.argv[1]
remote=sys.argv[2]
modules=os.listdir(projectdir)
g=git.cmd.Git(projectdir)
g.init()
for module in modules:
    g.add(module)
message='first commit'
(stats,op)=commands.getstatusoutput("git commit -m '"+message+"'"+projectdir)
g.push(remote)

Class git makes bindings with git binaries  possible

The statement g=git.cmd.Git(projectdir)

enables us to manage the local repository using object g. We can issue git commands as

• g.init()
• g.commit()
• g.branch(branchname)
• g.checkout(branchname)
• g.push(remoteRepo)

We can monitor current repository status through git.Repo
eg.

repo= git.Repo(projectdir)
for branch in repo.heads:
    print branch.name
    print branch.commit

This will display all branches and details of commits corresponding to repository