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@@ -3,11 +3,6 @@ This is the dulwich project.
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It aims to give an interface to git repos that doesn't call out to git
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directly but instead uses pure Python.
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-Currently can read blobs, trees and commits from the files. It reads both
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-legacy and new headers. It can write out new indexes as well.
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-Can also understand a little about the repository format.
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Open up a repo by passing it the path to the .git dir. You can then ask for
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HEAD with repo.head() or a ref with repo.ref(name). Both return the SHA id
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they currently point to. You can then grab this object with
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@@ -23,11 +18,6 @@ a blob object from the string. You can then call blob.sha() to get the sha
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object for this blob, and hexdigest() on that will get its ID. There is
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currently no method that allows you to write it out though.
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-Everything is currently done with assertions, where much of it should probably
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-be exceptions. This was merely done for expediency. If you hit an assertion,
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-it either means you have done something wrong, there is corruption, or
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-you are trying an unsupported operation.
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The project is named after the part of London that Mr. and Mrs. Git live in
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in the particular Monty Python sketch. It is based on the Python-Git module
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that James Westby <jw+debian@jameswestby.net> released in 2007 and now
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Jelmer Vernooij