Git with Python

There are some Python packages that we can use with Git and GitHub. In this section, we will take a look at the GitPython and PyGithub libraries.

GitPython

We can use the GitPython package, https://gitpython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html, to work with our Git repository. We will install the package and use the Python shell to construct a Repo object. From there, we can list all the commits in the repository:

$ sudo pip3 install gitpython
$ python3
>>> from git import Repo
>>> repo = Repo('/home/echou/Master_Python_Networking_second_edition/Chapter11/TestRepo')
>>> for commits in list(repo.iter_commits('master')):
... print(commits)
...
0aa362a47782e7714ca946ba852f395083116ce5...