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:

(venv) $ pip install gitpython
(venv) $ python
>>> from git import Repo
>>> repo = Repo('/home/echou/Mastering_Python_Networking_third_edition/Chapter13/TestRepo-1')
>>> for commits in list(repo.iter_commits('master')):
... print(commits)
...
1b24b4e95eb0c01cc9a7124dc6ac1ea37d44d51a
169a2034fb9844889f5130f0e42bf9c9b7c08b05
a537bdcc1648458ce88120ae607b4ddea7fa9637
ff7dc1a40e5603fed552a3403be97addefddc4e9
5d7c1c8543c8342b689c66f1ac1fa888090ffa34

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