Dulwich, pure Python Git implementation

[albertzeyer]

https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich

[albertzeyer]

Along the lines: 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

[ryanackley]

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

[anton_gogolev]

On an almost completely unrelated note, there's also Mercurial Core reimplementation in C#:

https://bitbucket.org/hglab/hgsharp

[diminish]

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

[masklinn → diminish]

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 → masklinn]

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 → jordigh]

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.

[lucian1900 → diminish]

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 → lucian1900]

And hg-github, a wrapper on top of hg-git I wrote: https://github.com/stephenmcd/hg-github

[ergo14 → diminish]

http://rhodecode.com ;-)

[drrotmos]

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

[rsgalloway]

Shameless plug for my dulwich-backed project, 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

[AaronO]

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), a high level library for managing git repos, I wrote using dulwich.

[JoshTriplett]

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

[topbanana]

Weird, I was just browsing for property around there

[loxs]

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

[shocks → loxs]

Huh? Except this is Python...

[dbaupp → shocks]

Despite being unrelated, the GP is still correct: https://github.com/creationix/js-git