What Git library to choose? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 5 months ago by wasabi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/python@programming.dev

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I happen to write a lot of python code dealing with git repositories. Currently I am calling the git command line tool from python and interpret the output.

This solution really doesn't scale well. Can you recommend a python library that wraps git functionality?

I have found three:

GitPython: Seems to work well, but it is in maintenance mode, unlikely to be improved. It also does not have any type hints making working with it annoying.
pygit2: Seems well supported and has type hints. But it also seems very low level and pretty tedious to use.
dulwich: Looks very promising feature wise but I'm unsure how well it is supported. It seems like an ambitious project being largely done by just one person.

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[-] fixmycode@feddit.cl 4 points 5 months ago

I read through the docs of pygit2, how is it too low level compared to using direct console output?

if you need complex workflows, couldn't they be built over the convenience of the library?

[-] wasabi@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago

Maybe pygit2 is indeed the way to go. When I looked into it a while back it looked very low level like it only implemented the git plumbing. But maybe I looked at the wrong part of the docs, because it doesn't look too bad.