Have you ever written a deployment script with subprocess.run(["git", "pull"]) and felt like there just must be a better way? There is! GitPython provides you with a real Python API for doing anything Git can do: clone, commit, create branches, diffs, read history, etc.

Installation

pip install gitpython

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GitPython assumes you have git installed on your system. It uses shelling out to git behind the scenes, translating into Python objects as cleanly as possible.

Opening a Repository

from git import Repo , InvalidGitRepositoryError

# Open an existing repo repo = Repo ( " /path/to/your/project " )

# Open the repo at the current working directory repo = Repo ( " . " )

# Open from any subdirectory (search_parent_directories=True) repo = Repo ( " .…