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/Chapter10/TestRepo')
>>> for commits in list(repo.iter_commits('master')):
... print(commits)
...
0aa362a47782e7714ca946ba852f395083116ce5
a001b816bb75c63237cbc93067dffcc573c05aa2
bc078a97e41d1614c1ba1f81f72acbcd95c0728c
2ec5f7d1a734b2cc74343ce45075917b79cc7293
c98373069f27d8b98d1ddacffe51b8fa7a30cf28
a3dd3ea8e6eb15b57d1f390ce0d2c3a03f07a038
5f579ab1e9a3fae13aa7f1b8092055213157524d

We can also look at the index entries...