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Dulwich, pure Python Git implementation

82 points by albertzeyer 13y ago

albertzeyer 13y ago
Along the lines: https://github.com/FriendCode/gittle https://github.com/FriendCode/gittle high-level pure-Python Git library based on Dulwich. Note that Dulwich is old. Some old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2834183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2834183
diminish 13y ago
What is the benefit for maintaining a git repo interface in pure python, portability?
- ergo14 13y ago
  http://rhodecode.com http://rhodecode.com ;-)
- lucian1900 13y ago
  Its main usage is hg-git, which is a hg plugin that lets you use hg to interact with git repos. It would be very inconvenient to do the same thing by starting a git subprocess all the time.
  - stephen_mcd 13y ago
    And hg-github, a wrapper on top of hg-git I wrote: https://github.com/stephenmcd/hg-github https://github.com/stephenmcd/hg-github
- masklinn 13y ago
  1. hg-git, both libraries were started by githubbers to get the market of people-who-want-to-use-hg on github 2. interfacing with git repos from python, doing so through subprocess is less than enjoyable (and libgit2 basically didn't exist at the time) (and requires C code, which may be a chore e.g. on windows)
  - jordigh 13y ago
    I wanted to speed up hg-git, since it's really slow for moderately-sized git repos. The slowness seems to be all in Dulwich. Isn't it more desirable then to have Python bindings to libgit?
    - dochtman 13y ago
      http://www.pygit2.org/ http://www.pygit2.org/ I think there's a bunch of speeding-up hg-git work floating around, notably around Mozilla work. Some of that has been mentioned in the hg-git mailing list.
anton_gogolev 13y ago
On an almost completely unrelated note, there's also Mercurial Core reimplementation in C#: https://bitbucket.org/hglab/hgsharp https://bitbucket.org/hglab/hgsharp
loxs 13y ago
Everything that can be implemented in JavaScript, eventually will be implemented in JavaScript
- shocks 13y ago
  Huh? Except this is Python...
  - dbaupp 13y ago
    Despite being unrelated, the GP is still correct: https://github.com/creationix/js-git https://github.com/creationix/js-git
topbanana 13y ago
Weird, I was just browsing for property around there
drrotmos 13y ago
There's also https://github.com/e-butik/Gittern https://github.com/e-butik/Gittern (made by your's truly) which is a pure-PHP Git implementation (though not as complete as Dulwich).
ryanackley 13y ago
Slightly unrelated, I wrote a pure javascript git implementation here https://github.com/ryanackley/git-html5.js https://github.com/ryanackley/git-html5.js
JoshTriplett 13y ago
Nice, but I still prefer libgit2, which has bindings for numerous languages including Python.
AaronO 13y ago
I'm one of dulwich's contributors and Jelmer has done some great work on Dulwich. You might want to check out Gittle (https://github.com/FriendCode/gittle https://github.com/FriendCode/gittle), a high level library for managing git repos, I wrote using dulwich.
rsgalloway 13y ago
Shameless plug for my dulwich-backed project, grit: https://github.com/rsgalloway/grit https://github.com/rsgalloway/grit - Python WSGI "Smart HTTP" server - Limited remote object proxying - Stream blob data from remote repositories - Hierarchical repos with top-down inheritance - Check out individual blobs - Python and HTTP+JSON read/write API - Supports a centralized workflow - Command line, Python and web UIs - Git not required

82 points by albertzeyer 13y ago

Along the lines: https://github.com/FriendCode/gittle https://github.com/FriendCode/gittle high-level pure-Python Git library based on Dulwich. Note that Dulwich is old. Some old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2834183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2834183

diminish 13y ago

What is the benefit for maintaining a git repo interface in pure python, portability?

ergo14 13y ago
http://rhodecode.com http://rhodecode.com ;-)
lucian1900 13y ago
Its main usage is hg-git, which is a hg plugin that lets you use hg to interact with git repos. It would be very inconvenient to do the same thing by starting a git subprocess all the time.
- stephen_mcd 13y ago
  And hg-github, a wrapper on top of hg-git I wrote: https://github.com/stephenmcd/hg-github https://github.com/stephenmcd/hg-github
masklinn 13y ago
1. hg-git, both libraries were started by githubbers to get the market of people-who-want-to-use-hg on github 2. interfacing with git repos from python, doing so through subprocess is less than enjoyable (and libgit2 basically didn't exist at the time) (and requires C code, which may be a chore e.g. on windows)
- jordigh 13y ago
  I wanted to speed up hg-git, since it's really slow for moderately-sized git repos. The slowness seems to be all in Dulwich. Isn't it more desirable then to have Python bindings to libgit?
  - dochtman 13y ago
    http://www.pygit2.org/ http://www.pygit2.org/ I think there's a bunch of speeding-up hg-git work floating around, notably around Mozilla work. Some of that has been mentioned in the hg-git mailing list.

anton_gogolev 13y ago

On an almost completely unrelated note, there's also Mercurial Core reimplementation in C#: https://bitbucket.org/hglab/hgsharp https://bitbucket.org/hglab/hgsharp

loxs 13y ago

Everything that can be implemented in JavaScript, eventually will be implemented in JavaScript

shocks 13y ago
Huh? Except this is Python...
- dbaupp 13y ago
  Despite being unrelated, the GP is still correct: https://github.com/creationix/js-git https://github.com/creationix/js-git

topbanana 13y ago

Weird, I was just browsing for property around there

drrotmos 13y ago

There's also https://github.com/e-butik/Gittern https://github.com/e-butik/Gittern (made by your's truly) which is a pure-PHP Git implementation (though not as complete as Dulwich).

ryanackley 13y ago

Slightly unrelated, I wrote a pure javascript git implementation here https://github.com/ryanackley/git-html5.js https://github.com/ryanackley/git-html5.js

JoshTriplett 13y ago

Nice, but I still prefer libgit2, which has bindings for numerous languages including Python.

AaronO 13y ago

I'm one of dulwich's contributors and Jelmer has done some great work on Dulwich. You might want to check out Gittle (https://github.com/FriendCode/gittle https://github.com/FriendCode/gittle), a high level library for managing git repos, I wrote using dulwich.

rsgalloway 13y ago

Shameless plug for my dulwich-backed project, grit: https://github.com/rsgalloway/grit https://github.com/rsgalloway/grit - Python WSGI "Smart HTTP" server - Limited remote object proxying - Stream blob data from remote repositories - Hierarchical repos with top-down inheritance - Check out individual blobs - Python and HTTP+JSON read/write API - Supports a centralized workflow - Command line, Python and web UIs - Git not required