dulwich

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This is the Dulwich project.

It aims to provide an interface to git repos (both local and remote) that
doesn't call out to git directly but instead uses pure Python.

**Main website**:

**License**: Apache License, version 2 or GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

The project is named after the part of London that Mr. and Mrs. Git live in
in the particular Monty Python sketch.

Installation
------------

By default, Dulwich' setup.py will attempt to build and install the optional C
extensions. The reason for this is that they significantly improve the performance
since some low-level operations that are executed often are much slower in CPython.

If you don't want to install the C bindings, specify the --pure argument to setup.py::

$ python setup.py --pure install

or if you are installing from pip::

$ pip install dulwich --global-option="--pure"

Note that you can also specify --global-option in a
`requirements.txt `_
file, e.g. like this::

dulwich --global-option=--pure

Getting started
---------------

Dulwich comes with both a lower-level API and higher-level plumbing ("porcelain").

For example, to use the lower level API to access the commit message of the
last commit::

>>> from dulwich.repo import Repo
>>> r = Repo('.')
>>> r.head()
'57fbe010446356833a6ad1600059d80b1e731e15'
>>> c = r[r.head()]
>>> c

>>> c.message
'Add note about encoding.\n'

And to print it using porcelain::

>>> from dulwich import porcelain
>>> porcelain.log('.', max_entries=1)
--------------------------------------------------
commit: 57fbe010446356833a6ad1600059d80b1e731e15
Author: Jelmer Vernooij
Date: Sat Apr 29 2017 23:57:34 +0000

Add note about encoding.

Further documentation
---------------------

The dulwich documentation can be found in docs/ and
`on the web `_.

The API reference can be generated using pydoctor, by running "make pydoctor",
or `on the web `_.

Help
----

There is a *#dulwich* IRC channel on the `Freenode `_, and
`dulwich-announce `_
and `dulwich-discuss `_
mailing lists.

Contributing
------------

For a full list of contributors, see the git logs or `AUTHORS `_.

If you'd like to contribute to Dulwich, see the `CONTRIBUTING `_
file and `list of open issues `_.

Supported versions of Python
----------------------------

At the moment, Dulwich supports (and is tested on) CPython 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 and Pypy.