GitDB

GitDB allows you to access bare git repositories for reading and writing. It aims at allowing full access to loose objects as well as packs with performance and scalability in mind. It operates exclusively on streams, allowing to handle large objects with a small memory footprint.

Installation

From PyPI

pip install gitdb

SPEEDUPS

If you want to go up to 20% faster, you can install gitdb-speedups with:

pip install gitdb-speedups

REQUIREMENTS

• pytest - for running the tests

SOURCE

The source is available in a git repository at gitorious and github:

https://github.com/gitpython-developers/gitdb

Once the clone is complete, please be sure to initialize the submodules using

cd gitdb git submodule update --init

Run the tests with

pytest

DEVELOPMENT

The library is considered mature, and not under active development. It's primary (known) use is in git-python.

INFRASTRUCTURE

• Mailing List

  • http://groups.google.com/group/git-python

• Issue Tracker

  • https://github.com/gitpython-developers/gitdb/issues

LICENSE

New BSD License