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.
  • Corbin@programming.devEnglish
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    5 months ago

    With no more details? I’d go with Dulwich. libgit2 is overly picky about inputs and can’t be hacked apart at all, and this affects its bindings too. I recently found myself monkey-patching Dulwich to allow otherwise-forbidden characters in refs, and this would have been fundamentally impossible with anything on top of libgit2.