diff --git a/docs/repository.rst b/docs/repository.rst
index ce8af39..5f5850a 100644
--- a/docs/repository.rst
+++ b/docs/repository.rst
@@ -69,4 +69,8 @@ Below there are some general attributes and methods:
 .. automethod:: pygit2.Repository.write
 .. automethod:: pygit2.Repository.reset
 .. automethod:: pygit2.Repository.state_cleanup
+<<<<<<< HEAD
 .. automethod:: pygit2.Repository.write_archive
+=======
+.. automethod:: pygit2.Repository.ahead_behind
+>>>>>>> Add Repsitory.ahead_behind()
diff --git a/pygit2/decl.h b/pygit2/decl.h
index c628e66..5c0dda4 100644
--- a/pygit2/decl.h
+++ b/pygit2/decl.h
@@ -535,6 +535,7 @@ int git_repository_init_ext(
 
 int git_repository_set_head(git_repository *repo, const char *refname, const git_signature *signature, const char *log_message);
 int git_repository_set_head_detached(git_repository *repo, const git_oid *commitish, const git_signature *signature, const char *log_message);
+int git_graph_ahead_behind(size_t *ahead, size_t *behind, git_repository *repo, const git_oid *local, const git_oid *upstream);
 
 /*
  * git_index
diff --git a/pygit2/repository.py b/pygit2/repository.py
index 3dd14f1..064ebb9 100644
--- a/pygit2/repository.py
+++ b/pygit2/repository.py
@@ -625,3 +625,41 @@ class Repository(_Repository):
                 info.mode = 0o777 # symlinks get placeholder
 
             archive.addfile(info, StringIO(content))
+
+    #
+    # Ahead-behind, which mostly lives on its own namespace
+    #
+    def ahead_behind(self, local, upstream):
+        """ahead_behind(local, upstream) -> (int, int)
+
+        Calculate how many different commits are in the non-common parts
+        of the history between the two given ids.
+
+        Ahead is how many commits are in the ancestry of the 'local'
+        commit which are not in the 'upstream' commit. Behind is the
+        opposite.
+
+        Arguments
+
+        local
+            The commit which is considered the local or current state
+        upstream
+            The commit which is considered the upstream
+
+        Returns a tuple with the number of commits ahead and behind respectively.
+        """
+
+        if not isinstance(local, Oid):
+            local = self.expand_id(local)
+
+        if not isinstance(upstream, Oid):
+            upstream = self.expand_id(upstream)
+
+        ahead, behind = ffi.new('size_t*'), ffi.new('size_t*')
+        oid1, oid2 = ffi.new('git_oid *'), ffi.new('git_oid *')
+        ffi.buffer(oid1)[:] = local.raw[:]
+        ffi.buffer(oid2)[:] = upstream.raw[:]
+        err = C.git_graph_ahead_behind(ahead, behind, self._repo, oid1, oid2)
+        check_error(err)
+
+        return int(ahead[0]), int(behind[0])
diff --git a/src/repository.c b/src/repository.c
index 9eabbb9..ba71030 100644
--- a/src/repository.c
+++ b/src/repository.c
@@ -1433,6 +1433,24 @@ Repository_reset(Repository *self, PyObject* args)
     Py_RETURN_NONE;
 }
 
+PyDoc_STRVAR(Repository_expand_id__doc__,
+    "expand_id(hex) -> Oid\n"
+    "\n"
+    "Expand a string into a full Oid according to the objects in this repsitory.\n");
+
+PyObject *
+Repository_expand_id(Repository *self, PyObject *py_hex)
+{
+    git_oid oid;
+    int err;
+
+    err = py_oid_to_git_oid_expand(self->repo, py_hex, &oid);
+    if (err < 0)
+        return NULL;
+
+    return git_oid_to_python(&oid);
+}
+
 PyMethodDef Repository_methods[] = {
     METHOD(Repository, create_blob, METH_VARARGS),
     METHOD(Repository, create_blob_fromworkdir, METH_VARARGS),
@@ -1461,6 +1479,7 @@ PyMethodDef Repository_methods[] = {
     METHOD(Repository, listall_branches, METH_VARARGS),
     METHOD(Repository, create_branch, METH_VARARGS),
     METHOD(Repository, reset, METH_VARARGS),
+    METHOD(Repository, expand_id, METH_O),
     METHOD(Repository, _from_c, METH_VARARGS),
     METHOD(Repository, _disown, METH_NOARGS),
     {NULL}
diff --git a/test/data/testrepo b/test/data/testrepo
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..2be5719
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/data/testrepo
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 2be5719152d4f82c7302b1c0932d8e5f0a4a0e98
diff --git a/test/test_repository.py b/test/test_repository.py
index 7640f39..88fbb04 100644
--- a/test/test_repository.py
+++ b/test/test_repository.py
@@ -156,6 +156,11 @@ class RepositoryTest(utils.BareRepoTestCase):
             commit.message)
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, self.repo.__getitem__, too_short_prefix)
 
+    def test_expand_id(self):
+        commit_sha = '5fe808e8953c12735680c257f56600cb0de44b10'
+        expanded = self.repo.expand_id(commit_sha[:7])
+        self.assertEqual(commit_sha, expanded.hex)
+
     @unittest.skipIf(__pypy__ is not None, "skip refcounts checks in pypy")
     def test_lookup_commit_refcount(self):
         start = sys.getrefcount(self.repo)
@@ -295,6 +300,17 @@ class RepositoryTest_II(utils.RepoTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(commit.hex,
                          'acecd5ea2924a4b900e7e149496e1f4b57976e51')
 
+    def test_ahead_behind(self):
+        ahead, behind = self.repo.ahead_behind('5ebeeebb320790caf276b9fc8b24546d63316533',
+                                               '4ec4389a8068641da2d6578db0419484972284c8')
+        self.assertEqual(1, ahead)
+        self.assertEqual(2, behind)
+
+        ahead, behind = self.repo.ahead_behind('4ec4389a8068641da2d6578db0419484972284c8',
+                                               '5ebeeebb320790caf276b9fc8b24546d63316533')
+        self.assertEqual(2, ahead)
+        self.assertEqual(1, behind)
+
     def test_reset_hard(self):
         ref = "5ebeeebb320790caf276b9fc8b24546d63316533"
         with open(os.path.join(self.repo.workdir, "hello.txt")) as f: