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Top level constants and exceptions from the library.

Constants
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The following constants provide information about the version of the libgit2
library that has been built against. The version number has a
``MAJOR.MINOR.REVISION`` format.

.. py:data:: LIBGIT2_VER_MAJOR

   Integer value of the major version number. For example, for the version
   ``0.24.2``::

      >>> print LIBGIT2_VER_MAJOR
      0

.. py:data:: LIBGIT2_VER_MINOR

   Integer value of the minor version number. For example, for the version
   ``0.24.2``::

      >>> print LIBGIT2_VER_MINOR
      24

.. py:data:: LIBGIT2_VER_REVISION

   Integer value of the revision version number. For example, for the version
   ``0.24.2``::

      >>> print LIBGIT2_VER_REVISION
      2

.. py:data:: LIBGIT2_VERSION

   The libgit2 version number as a string::

      >>> print LIBGIT2_VERSION
      '0.24.2'

Errors
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.. autoexception:: pygit2.GitError
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