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Git objects
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.. contents:: Contents
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:local:
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In the first place Git is a key-value storage system. The values stored are
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called *objects*, there are four types (commits, trees, blobs and tags),
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for each type pygit2 has a Python class::
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# Get the last commit
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>>> head = repo.head
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# Show commits and trees
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>>> commit
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<pygit2.Commit object at 0x7f9d2f3000b0>
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>>> commit.tree
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<pygit2.Tree object at 0x7f9d2f3000f0>
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These four classes (``Commit``, ``Tree``, ``Blob`` and ``Tag``) inherit from
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the ``Object`` base class, which provides shared behaviour. A Git object is
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identified by a unique *object id*, which is a binary byte string; this is
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often represented as an hexadecimal text string::
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>>> commit.oid
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b'x\xde\xb5W\x8d\x01<\xdb\xdf\x08o\xa1\xd1\xa3\xe7\xd9\x82\xe8\x88\x8f'
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>>> commit.hex
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'78deb5578d013cdbdf086fa1d1a3e7d982e8888f'
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The API of pygit2 accepts both the raw object id and its hexadecimal
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representation, the difference is done based on its type (a byte or a text
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string).
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Objects can not be modified once they have been created.
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This is the common interface for all Git objects:
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.. autoclass:: pygit2.Object
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:members: type, oid, hex, read_raw
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Commits
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-----------------
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A commit is a snapshot of the working dir with meta informations like author,
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committer and others.
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.. autoclass:: pygit2.Commit
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:members: author, committer, message, message_encoding, tree, parents,
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commit_time, commit_time_offset
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:show-inheritance:
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Signatures
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.............
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The author and committer attributes of commit objects are ``Signature``
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objects::
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>>> commit.author
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<pygit2.Signature object at 0x7f75e9b1f5f8>
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.. autoclass:: pygit2.Signature
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:members: name, email, time, offset
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Creating commits
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................
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Commits can be created by calling the ``create_commit`` method of the
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repository with the following parameters::
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>>> author = Signature('Alice Author', 'alice@authors.tld')
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>>> committer = Signature('Cecil Committer', 'cecil@committers.tld')
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>>> tree = repo.TreeBuilder().write()
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>>> repo.create_commit(
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... 'refs/heads/master', # the name of the reference to update
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... author, committer, 'one line commit message\n\ndetailed commit message',
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... tree, # binary string representing the tree object ID
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... [] # list of binary strings representing parents of the new commit
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... )
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'#\xe4<u\xfe\xd6\x17\xa0\xe6\xa2\x8b\xb6\xdc35$\xcf-\x8b~'
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Trees
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-----------------
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A tree is a sorted collection of tree entries. It is similar to a folder or
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directory in a file system. Each entry points to another tree or a blob. A
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tree can be iterated, and partially implements the sequence and mapping
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interfaces::
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# Number of entries
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>>> tree = commit.tree
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>>> len(tree)
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6
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# Iteration
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>>> for entry in tree:
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... print(entry.hex, entry.name)
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...
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7151ca7cd3e59f3eab19c485cfbf3cb30928d7fa .gitignore
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c36f4cf1e38ec1bb9d9ad146ed572b89ecfc9f18 COPYING
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32b30b90b062f66957d6790c3c155c289c34424e README.md
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c87dae4094b3a6d10e08bc6c5ef1f55a7e448659 pygit2.c
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85a67270a49ef16cdd3d328f06a3e4b459f09b27 setup.py
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3d8985bbec338eb4d47c5b01b863ee89d044bd53 test
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# Get an entry by name
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>>> entry = tree['pygit2.c']
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>>> entry
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<pygit2.TreeEntry object at 0xcc10f0>
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# Get the object the entry points to
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>>> blob = repo[entry.oid]
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>>> blob
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<pygit2.Blob object at 0xcc12d0>
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This is the interface of a tree entry::
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TreeEntry.name -- name of the tree entry
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TreeEntry.oid -- the id of the git object
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TreeEntry.hex -- hexadecimal representation of the oid
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TreeEntry.filemode -- the Unix file attributes
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TreeEntry.to_object() -- returns the git object (equivalent to repo[entry.oid])
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.. autoclass:: pygit2.Tree
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:members:
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:show-inheritance:
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:undoc-members:
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.. autoclass:: pygit2.TreeEntry
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:members:
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:show-inheritance:
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:undoc-members:
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Blobs
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A blob is equivalent to a file in a file system.::
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# create a blob out of memory
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>>> oid = repo.create_blob('foo bar')
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>>> blob = repo[oid]
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Blob.data -- the contents of the blob, a byte string
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.. autoclass:: pygit2.Blob
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:members:
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:show-inheritance:
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:undoc-members:
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Tags
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-----------------
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A tag is a static label for a commit. See references for more information.
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.. autoclass:: pygit2.Tag
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:members:
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:show-inheritance:
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:undoc-members:
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