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-This is the dulwich project.
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+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. It is probably going to be implemented in pure python.
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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. However it is untested for anything but the simple
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-case.
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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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-The testsuite uses the nosetests program from Turbogears, as I got annoyed
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-trying to set up unittest.
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-
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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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@@ -32,8 +28,6 @@ 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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-If you have any comments or questions you can contact me at
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-jw+debian@jameswestby.net
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-James Westby
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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.
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Jelmer Vernooij