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Python Library GitPython

GitPython provides a python interface to interact with git repositories.

# GitPython Basic Usage

To connect to the repository:

import git
repo = git.Repo(git_repo_path)

where git_repo_path shall be a

Iterate commits on master branch:

commits = list(repo.iter_commits("master"))
for commit in commits:
    print(commit)

Check the stats (file modification log) of each commit:

last_commit = commits[0]
print(last_commit.stats.files)

# Low Level Command Execution

GitPython also provides low-level interface to execute git command by a more gentle approach. For instance, to execute git show command:

repo.git.show(numstat=True, summary=True)

This would be interpretd as the shell command

git show --numstat --summary