pygit2 0.22.0

Python bindings for libgit2.

Pygit2 is a set of Python bindings to the libgit2 shared library, libgit2 implements the core of Git. Pygit2 works with Python 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and pypy.

Links:

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

How to install

• Check http://www.pygit2.org/install.html

Changelog

0.22.0 (2015-01-16)

New:

• Update to libgit2 v0.22 #459
• Add support for libgit2 feature detection (new pygit2.features and pygit2.GIT_FEATURE_*) #475
• New Repository.remotes (RemoteCollection) #447

API Changes:

• Prototype of clone_repository changed, check documentation
• Removed clone_into, use clone_repository with callbacks instead
• Use Repository.remotes.rename(name, new_name) instead of Remote.rename(new_name)
• Use Repository.remotes.delete(name) instead of Remote.delete()
• Now Remote.push(...) takes a list of refspecs instead of just one
• Change Patch.old_id, Patch.new_id, Note.annotated_id, RefLogEntry.oid_old and RefLogEntry.oid_new to be Oid objects instead of strings #449

Other:

• Fix init_repository when passing optional parameters workdir_path, description, template_path, initial_head or origin_url #466 #471
• Fix use-after-free when patch outlives diff #457 #461 #474
• Documentation improvements #456 #462 #465 #472 #473
• Make the GPL exception explicit in setup.py #450

0.21.4 (2014-11-04)

• Fix credentials callback not set when pushing #431 #435 #437 #438
• Fix Repository.diff(...) when treeish is “empty” #432
• New Reference.peel(...) renders Reference.get_object() obsolete #434
• New, authenticate using ssh agent #424
• New Repository.merge_commits(...) #445
• Make it easier to run when libgit2 not in a standard location #441
• Documentation: review install chapter
• Documentation: many corrections #427 #429 #439 #440 #442 #443 #444

0.21.3 (2014-09-15)

Breaking changes:

• Now Repository.blame(...) returns Oid instead of string #413
• New Reference.set_target(...) replaces the Reference.target setter and Reference.log_append(...) #414
• New Repository.set_head(...) replaces the Repository.head setter #414
• Repository.merge(...) now uses the SAFE_CREATE strategy by default #417

Other changes:

• New Remote.delete() #418 #420
• New Repository.write_archive(...) #421
• Now Repository.checkout(...) accepts branch objects #408
• Fix refcount leak in remotes #403 #404 #419
• Various fixes to clone_repository(...) #399 #411 #425 #426
• Fix build error in Python 3 #401
• Now pip install pygit2 installs cffi first #380 #407
• Add support for pypy3 #422
• Documentation improvements #398 #409

0.21.2 (2014-08-09)

• Fix regression with Python 2, IndexEntry.path returns str (bytes in Python 2 and unicode in Python 3)
• Get back IndexEntry.oid for backwards compatibility
• Config, iterate over the keys (instead of the key/value pairs) #395
• Diff.find_similar supports new threshold arguments #396
• Optimization, do not load the object when expanding an oid prefix #397

0.21.1 (2014-07-22)

• Install fix #382
• Documentation improved, including #383 #385 #388
• Documentation, use the read-the-docs theme #387
• Coding style improvements #392
• New Repository.state_cleanup() #386
• New Index.conflicts #345 #389
• New checkout option to define the target directory #390

Backward incompatible changes:

• Now the checkout strategy must be a keyword argument.

  Change Repository.checkout(refname, strategy) to Repository.checkout(refname, strategy=strategy)

  Idem for checkout_head, checkout_index and checkout_tree

0.21.0 (2014-06-27)

Highlights:

• Drop official support for Python 2.6, and add support for Python 3.4 #376
• Upgrade to libgit2 v0.21.0 #374
• Start using cffi #360 #361

Backward incompatible changes:

• Replace oid by id through the API to follow libgit2 conventions.
• Merge API overhaul following changes in libgit2.
• New Remote.rename(...) replaces Remote.name = ...
• Now Remote.fetch() returns a TransferProgress object.
• Now Config.get_multivar(...) returns an iterator instead of a list.

New features:

• New Config.snapshot() and Repository.config_snapshot()
• New Config methods: get_bool(...), get_int(...), parse_bool(...) and parse_int(...) #357
• Blob: implement the memory buffer interface #362
• New clone_into(...) function #368
• Now Index can be used alone, without a repository #372
• Add more options to init_repository #347
• Support Repository.workdir = ... and support setting detached heads Repository.head = <Oid> #377

Other:

• Fix again build with VS2008 #364
• Fix Blob.diff(...) and Blob.diff_to_buffer(...) arguments passing #366
• Fail gracefully when compiling against the wrong version of libgit2 #365
• Several documentation improvements and updates #359 #375 #378

0.20.3 (2014-04-02)

• A number of memory issues fixed #328 #348 #353 #355 #356
• Compatibility fixes for PyPy (#338), Visual Studio 2008 (#343) and Python 3.3 (#351)
• Make the sort mode parameter in Repository.walk(...) optional #337
• New Object.peel(...) #342
• New Index.add_all(...) #344
• Introduce support for libgit2 options #350
• More informative repr for Repository objects #352
• Introduce support for credentials #354
• Several documentation fixes #302 #336
• Tests, remove temporary files #341

0.20.2 (2014-02-04)

• 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

0.20.1 (2013-12-24)

• 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

0.20.0 (2013-11-24)

• 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

Authors

83 developers have contributed at least 1 commit to pygit2:

J. David Ibáñez            Sebastian Thiel            András Veres-Szentkirályi
Carlos Martín Nieto        Fraser Tweedale            Ash Berlin
Nico von Geyso             Han-Wen Nienhuys           Benjamin Kircher
W. Trevor King             Leonardo Rhodes            Benjamin Pollack
Dave Borowitz              Petr Viktorin              Bryan O'Sullivan
Daniel Rodríguez Troitiño  Ron Cohen                  Daniel Bruce
Richo Healey               Thomas Kluyver             David Fischer
Christian Boos             Alex Chamberlain           David Sanders
Julien Miotte              Alexander Bayandin         Devaev Maxim
Xu Tao                     Amit Bakshi                Eric Davis
Jose Plana                 Andrey Devyatkin           Erik Meusel
Matthew Gamble             Arno van Lumig             Erik van Zijst
Martin Lenders             Ben Davis                  Ferengee
Petr Hosek                 Eric Schrijver             Gustavo Di Pietro
Victor Garcia              Hervé Cauwelier            Hugh Cole-Baker
Xavier Delannoy            Huang Huang                Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse
Yonggang Luo               Ian P. McCullough          Josh Bleecher Snyder
Valentin Haenel            Jack O'Connor              Kyriakos Oikonomakos
Michael Jones              Jared Flatow               Mathieu Bridon
Bernardo Heynemann         Jiunn Haur Lim             Óscar San José
John Szakmeister           Jun Omae                   Ridge Kennedy
Matthew Duggan             Sarath Lakshman            Rui Abreu Ferreira
Brodie Rao                 Vicent Marti               Soasme
Vlad Temian                Zoran Zaric                chengyuhang
David Versmisse            Adam Spiers                earl
Rémi Duraffort             Andrew Chin

License

GPLv2 with linking exception.

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