pygit2 - libgit2 bindings in Python

Pygit2 is a set of Python bindings to the libgit2 shared library, libgit2 implements the core of Git. Pygit2 works with Python 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and pypy.

Links:

• http://github.com/libgit2/pygit2 -- Source code and issue tracker
• http://www.pygit2.org/ -- Documentation
• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pygit2 -- Download

How to install

• Check http://www.pygit2.org/install.html

Changelog

0.21.1 (2014-07-22)

• Install fix #382
• Documentation improved, including #383 #385 #388
• Documentation, use the read-the-docs theme #387
• Coding style improvements #392
• New Repository.state_cleanup() #386
• New Index.conflicts #345 #389
• New checkout option to define the target directory #390

Backward incompatible changes:

• Now the checkout strategy must be a keyword argument.

  Change Repository.checkout(refname, strategy) to Repository.checkout(refname, strategy=strategy)

  Idem for checkout_head, checkout_index and checkout_tree

0.21.0 (2014-06-27)

Highlights:

• Drop official support for Python 2.6, and add support for Python 3.4 #376
• Upgrade to libgit2 v0.21.0 #374
• Start using cffi #360 #361

Backward incompatible changes:

• Replace oid by id through the API to follow libgit2 conventions.
• Merge API overhaul following changes in libgit2.
• New Remote.rename(...) replaces Remote.name = ...
• Now Remote.fetch() returns a TransferProgress object.
• Now Config.get_multivar(...) returns an iterator instead of a list.

New features:

• New Config.snapshot() and Repository.config_snapshot()
• New Config methods: get_bool(...), get_int(...), parse_bool(...) and parse_int(...) #357
• Blob: implement the memory buffer interface #362
• New clone_into(...) function #368
• Now Index can be used alone, without a repository #372
• Add more options to init_repository #347
• Support Repository.workdir = ... and support setting detached heads Repository.head = <Oid> #377

Other:

• Fix again build with VS2008 #364
• Fix Blob.diff(...) and Blob.diff_to_buffer(...) arguments passing #366
• Fail gracefully when compiling against the wrong version of libgit2 #365
• Several documentation improvements and updates #359 #375 #378

0.20.3 (2014-04-02)

• A number of memory issues fixed #328 #348 #353 #355 #356
• Compatibility fixes for PyPy (#338), Visual Studio 2008 (#343) and Python 3.3 (#351)
• Make the sort mode parameter in Repository.walk(...) optional #337
• New Object.peel(...) #342
• New Index.add_all(...) #344
• Introduce support for libgit2 options #350
• More informative repr for Repository objects #352
• Introduce support for credentials #354
• Several documentation fixes #302 #336
• Tests, remove temporary files #341

0.20.2 (2014-02-04)

• Support pypy #209 #327 #333

Repository:

• New Repository.default_signature #310

Oid:

• New str(Oid) deprecates Oid.hex #322

Object:

• New Object.id deprecates Object.oid #322
• New TreeEntry.id deprecates TreeEntry.oid #322
• New Blob.diff(...) and Blob.diff_to_buffer(...) #307
• New Commit.tree_id and Commit.parent_ids #73 #311
• New rich comparison between tree entries #305 #313
• Now Tree.__contains__(key) supports paths #306 #316

Index:

• Now possible to create IndexEntry(...) #325
• Now IndexEntry.path, IndexEntry.oid and IndexEntry.mode are writable #325
• Now Index.add(...) accepts an IndexEntry too #325
• Now Index.write_tree(...) is able to write to a different repository #325
• Fix memory leak in IndexEntry.path setter #335

Config:

• New Config iterator replaces Config.foreach #183 #312

Remote:

• New type Refspec #314
• New Remote.push_url #315
• New Remote.add_push and Remote.add_fetch #255 #318
• New Remote.fetch_refspecs replaces Remote.get_fetch_refspecs() and Remote.set_fetch_refspecs(...) #319
• New Remote.push_refspecs replaces Remote.get_push_refspecs() and Remote.set_push_refspecs(...) #319
• New Remote.progress, Remote.transfer_progress and Remote.update_tips #274 #324
• New type TransferProgress #274 #324
• Fix refcount leak in Repository.remotes #321 #332

Other: #331

0.20.1 (2013-12-24)

• New remote ref-specs API: #290
• New Repository.reset(...): #292, #294
• Export GIT_DIFF_MINIMAL: #293
• New Repository.merge(...): #295
• Fix Repository.blame argument handling: #297
• Fix build error on Windows: #298
• Fix typo in the README file, Blog → Blob: #301
• Now Diff.patch returns None if no patch: #232, #303
• New Walker.simplify_first_parent(): #304

0.20.0 (2013-11-24)

• Upgrade to libgit2 v0.20.0: #288
• New Repository.head_is_unborn replaces Repository.head_is_orphaned
• Changed pygit2.clone_repository(...). Drop push_url, fetch_spec and push_spec parameters. Add ignore_cert_errors.
• New Patch.additions and Patch.deletions: #275
• New Patch.is_binary: #276
• New Reference.log_append(...): #277
• New Blob.is_binary: #278
• New len(Diff) shows the number of patches: #281
• Rewrite Repository.status(): #283
• New Reference.shorthand: #284
• New Repository.blame(...): #285
• Now Repository.listall_references() and Repository.listall_branches() return a list, not a tuple: #289

Authors

68 developers have contributed at least 1 commit to pygit2:

J. David Ibáñez            Rémi Duraffort             Alexander Bayandin
Nico von Geyso             Sebastian Thiel            Andrew Chin
Carlos Martín Nieto        Fraser Tweedale            András Veres-Szentkirályi
W. Trevor King             Han-Wen Nienhuys           Benjamin Kircher
Dave Borowitz              Leonardo Rhodes            Benjamin Pollack
Daniel Rodríguez Troitiño  Petr Viktorin              Bryan O'Sullivan
Richo Healey               Thomas Kluyver             Daniel Bruce
Christian Boos             Alex Chamberlain           David Fischer
Julien Miotte              Amit Bakshi                David Sanders
Xu Tao                     Andrey Devyatkin           Devaev Maxim
Jose Plana                 Ben Davis                  Eric Davis
Martin Lenders             Eric Schrijver             Erik Meusel
Petr Hosek                 Hervé Cauwelier            Erik van Zijst
Victor Garcia              Huang Huang                Ferengee
Xavier Delannoy            Ian P. McCullough          Gustavo Di Pietro
Yonggang Luo               Jack O'Connor              Hugh Cole-Baker
Valentin Haenel            Jared Flatow               Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse
Michael Jones              Jiunn Haur Lim             Josh Bleecher Snyder
Bernardo Heynemann         Jun Omae                   Óscar San José
John Szakmeister           Sarath Lakshman            Ridge Kennedy
Brodie Rao                 Vicent Marti               Rui Abreu Ferreira
Vlad Temian                Zoran Zaric                earl
David Versmisse            Adam Spiers

License

GPLv2 with linking exception.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.

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