Pygit2 is a set of Python bindings to the libgit2 shared library, libgit2 implements the core of Git. Pygit2 works with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3

Pygit2 links:

• http://github.com/libgit2/pygit2 -- Source code and issue tracker
• http://www.pygit2.org/ -- Documentation
• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pygit2 -- Download

1. Checkout the libgit2 stable branch:

   $ git clone git://github.com/libgit2/libgit2.git -b master
   

2. Build and install libgit2 https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/#building-libgit2---using-cmake

3. Install pygit2 with pip:

   $ pip install pygit2
   

For detailed instructions check the documentation, http://www.pygit2.org/install.html

Fork libgit2/pygit2 on GitHub, make it awesomer (preferably in a branch named for the topic), send a pull request.

57 developers have contributed at least 1 commit to pygit2:

J. David Ibáñez            Brodie Rao                 Adam Spiers
Nico von Geyso             David Versmisse            Alexander Bayandin
Carlos Martín Nieto        Rémi Duraffort             Andrew Chin
W. Trevor King             Sebastian Thiel            András Veres-Szentkirályi
Dave Borowitz              Fraser Tweedale            Benjamin Kircher
Daniel Rodríguez Troitiño  Han-Wen Nienhuys           Benjamin Pollack
Richo Healey               Petr Viktorin              Bryan O'Sullivan
Christian Boos             Alex Chamberlain           David Fischer
Julien Miotte              Amit Bakshi                David Sanders
Xu Tao                     Andrey Devyatkin           Eric Davis
Jose Plana                 Ben Davis                  Erik van Zijst
Martin Lenders             Eric Schrijver             Ferengee
Petr Hosek                 Hervé Cauwelier            Gustavo Di Pietro
Victor Garcia              Huang Huang                Hugh Cole-Baker
Xavier Delannoy            Jared Flatow               Josh Bleecher Snyder
Yonggang Luo               Jiunn Haur Lim             Jun Omae
Valentin Haenel            Sarath Lakshman            Óscar San José
Bernardo Heynemann         Vicent Marti               Ridge Kennedy
John Szakmeister           Zoran Zaric                Rui Abreu Ferreira

• Support pypy #209 #327 #333

Repository:

• New Repository.default_signature #310

Oid:

• New str(Oid) deprecates Oid.hex #322

Object:

• New Object.id deprecates Object.oid #322
• New TreeEntry.id deprecates TreeEntry.oid #322
• New Blob.diff(...) and Blob.diff_to_buffer(...) #307
• New Commit.tree_id and Commit.parent_ids #73 #311
• New rich comparison between tree entries #305 #313
• Now Tree.__contains__(key) supports paths #306 #316

Index:

• Now possible to create IndexEntry(...) #325
• Now IndexEntry.path, IndexEntry.oid and IndexEntry.mode are writable #325
• Now Index.add(...) accepts an IndexEntry too #325
• Now Index.write_tree(...) is able to write to a different repository #325
• Fix memory leak in IndexEntry.path setter #335

Config:

• New Config iterator replaces Config.foreach #183 #312

Remote:

• New type Refspec #314
• New Remote.push_url #315
• New Remote.add_push and Remote.add_fetch #255 #318
• New Remote.fetch_refspecs replaces Remote.get_fetch_refspecs() and Remote.set_fetch_refspecs(...) #319
• New Remote.push_refspecs replaces Remote.get_push_refspecs() and Remote.set_push_refspecs(...) #319
• New Remote.progress, Remote.transfer_progress and Remote.update_tips #274 #324
• New type TransferProgress #274 #324
• Fix refcount leak in Repository.remotes #321 #332

Other: #331

• New remote ref-specs API: #290
• New Repository.reset(...): #292, #294
• Export GIT_DIFF_MINIMAL: #293
• New Repository.merge(...): #295
• Fix Repository.blame argument handling: #297
• Fix build error on Windows: #298
• Fix typo in the README file, Blog → Blob: #301
• Now Diff.patch returns None if no patch: #232, #303
• New Walker.simplify_first_parent(): #304

• Upgrade to libgit2 v0.20.0: #288
• New Repository.head_is_unborn replaces Repository.head_is_orphaned
• Changed pygit2.clone_repository(...). Drop push_url, fetch_spec and push_spec parameters. Add ignore_cert_errors.
• New Patch.additions and Patch.deletions: #275
• New Patch.is_binary: #276
• New Reference.log_append(...): #277
• New Blob.is_binary: #278
• New len(Diff) shows the number of patches: #281
• Rewrite Repository.status(): #283
• New Reference.shorthand: #284
• New Repository.blame(...): #285
• Now Repository.listall_references() and Repository.listall_branches() return a list, not a tuple: #289

GPLv2 with linking exception.

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