dulwich/examples/latest_change.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# Example printing the last author of a specified file

import sys
import time
from dulwich.repo import Repo

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print "usage: %s filename" % (sys.argv[0], )
    sys.exit(1)

r = Repo(".")

w = r.get_walker(paths=[sys.argv[1]], max_entries=1)
try:
    c = iter(w).next().commit
except StopIteration:
    print "No file %s anywhere in history." % sys.argv[1]
else:
    print "%s was last changed at %s by %s (commit %s)" % (
        sys.argv[1], c.author, time.ctime(c.author_time), c.id)