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.
Honestly if you already know all the git commands? I’d use sh
You’d still only get strings as returns. No objects modeling git concepts.
Fair point, I usually use exit codes
We have historically used GitPython a lot, but in a recent project I tried git via sh instead. It works great. If you already know the git cli, this feels very ergonomic to use.