Python API to Mercurial using the command-line interface


Keywords
mercurial, api
License
WTFPL
Install
pip install hgapi==1.7.4

Documentation

hgapi

https://travis-ci.org/haard/hgapi.png?branch=master

hgapi is a pure-Python API to Mercurial, that uses the command-line interface instead of the internal Mercurial API. The rationale for this is twofold: the internal API is unstable, and it is GPL.

hgapi works for all versions of Mercurial, and will instantly reflect any changes to the repository (including hgrc). It also has a really permissive license (do whatever you want, don't blame me).

For example of code that uses this API, take a look at https://bitbucket.org/haard/autohook which now uses hgapi exclusively. Add any feature requests or bugs found to the issue tracker.

So far, the API supports:

hg add [<file>]
hg addremove [<file>]
hg archive [-t type] [-r rev] <destination>
hg bookmarks [-r rev] [-f] [-m name newname | -d name | -i name | name]
hg branch
hg branches
hg clone
hg commit [files] [-u name] [--close-branch]
hg diff
hg heads
hg id
hg incoming
hg init
hg log
hg merge (fails on conflict)
hg outgoing
hg paths
hg pull [<source>]
hg push [<destination>]
hg remove
hg rename <source> <destination>
hg revert
hg root
hg status
hg tag
hg tags
hg update <rev>
hg version

You also have access to the configuration (config, configbool, configlist) just as in the internal Mercurial API. The repository supports slicing and indexing notation.

Example usage:

>>> import hgapi
>>> repo = hgapi.Repo("test_hgapi")  # existing folder
>>> repo.hg_init()
>>> repo.hg_add("file.txt")  # already created but not added file
>>> repo.hg_commit("Adding file.txt", user="me")
>>> str(repo['tip'].desc)
'Adding file.txt'
>>> len(repo[0:'tip'])
1
>>> open('test_hgapi/file.txt', 'a').write('\nAdded line') # doctest: +IGNORE_RESULT
>>> diff = repo.hg_diff()  # returns list of diffs
>>> assert diff[0]['filename'] == 'file.txt'
>>> assert '+Added line' in diff[0]['diff']

Installation

Easiest is easy_install or pip from PyPy:

pip install hgapi

or:

easy_install hgapi

Otherwise, download the source, make sure you have setuptools installed, and then run:

python setup.py install

Development

Do not hesitate to send requests, issues or perform code reviews! When developing please follow the pep8 guidelines (see http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/) and do use tox to check your code:

tox

Tox will make sure that hgapi runs on Python 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4; and it will check the pep8 compliance. By contributing you agree to release the code under the license terms listed below (basically - anyone can do anything with this code). Feel free to add yourself to the contributor list in your pull request.

Contributors

  • Fredrik Håård
  • Jan Willems
  • Stephen Paulger
  • Andy Tang
  • Thomas Röggla
  • Ardo Illaste
  • Ken Cochrane
  • Simon Williams

License

Copyright (c) 2011, Fredrik Håård

Do whatever you want, don't blame me. You may also use this software as licensed under the MIT or BSD licenses, or the more permissive license below:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.