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Github access token for Apps
I have a GitHub App configured with a Webhook that listens to Github events. The App is installed on a private repo and has both read and write permissions. git clone https://x-access-token:<TOKEN&...
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GitPython unable to execute command in existing repository
I am trying to run a script with GitPython, but it seems to only fail when I run from inside the Jenkins automation environment. The error that it gives isn't very helpful (and I haven't been able to ...
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Add safe directory with gitpython
How do I run this git command with gitpython(v2.1.*), please ?
git config --global --add safe.directory "some_dir"
Couldn't find in doc.
I tried this:
repo = git.Repo.init(some_dir)
config =...
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Azure devops throwing stderr: 'fatal: You are not currently on a branch.' when trying to push the code to checked out branch using GitPython library
I am trying to check out a git branch,generate files using python code and then push the changes to the branch using GitPython library
Below is the code used
repo = git.Repo(...
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How can I get head of branch with illegal characters in it
I know you can get the head of a branch directly using it's name (e.g. repo.heads.main). Can you get the head of a branch that has illegal variable characters (e.g. feature-generate-events) directly ...
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Trouble pushing to Git remote using GitPython: "remote unpack failed" and "RPC failed; HTTP 500"
I'm encountering issues when trying to push changes to a Git remote repository using GitPython. I'm receiving two different errors intermittently, and I'm unsure how to resolve them.
Error 1
error: ...
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Get all the commits message of a file using GitPython
I have the following piece of code to get the list of commit summaries of a specific file:
from git import Repo
repo_working_dir = '<valid directory of the repo>'
repo = Repo(repo_working_dir)
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Git diff against master branch using GitPython
I must be dense, but I haven't been able to find a solution yet.
I am trying to get a list of all of the members (in all commits or not committed yet) that have changed on a branch in my Python ...
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Clone ssh git repositories using python 3
I have this Python Script that clones a list of length n of repositories using ssh.
import pandas as pd
import time
import git
import sys
import os
counter = 0
#excel reader
resources = pd....
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Last git changes on a given file
Using the gitpython library, I'm trying access the date of the last changes on a given file. So far I only found out how to:
import git
# get a handle on a repo object for the current directory
repo=...
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How to call rev_list with GitPython
This program fails
import git
repo = git.repo.Repo('..')
res = repo.git.rev_list('--since="2024-01-01" master').split('\n')
with the following error
git.exc.GitCommandError: Cmd('git') ...
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Continuously print output of GitPython git.execute()
I'm running a command with GitPython git.execute(). Currently, I'm writing the return value to a window. Because the command takes some time, the window will not show any progress for a few seconds ...
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Write to PySimpleGUI.Multiline from logging.Handler throws exception
I have a PySimpleGUI with a button and a multiline. When I click on the button, a method is called and running for a couple of seconds (calls i.a. GitPython methods).
The method shall write its output ...
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Get list of directories and files in git repo using Python
I want to fetch all files and directories present in a git repo using Python and then parse through each directory to get details of files present under them.
Below is the piece of code I have been ...
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gitpython commit not writing to disk
I am trying to write a basic script that is pulling replicating the contents of one directory into another one, but making some modifications along the way. The items written in the new directory are ...
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How do I fix syntax errors related to type hints when using an external library like GitPython?
When trying to run a Python script I got the following errors:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\git\__init__....
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Python clone a private GitHub repo via SSH authentication without access to ssh binaries (under Azure Functions)
Our team needed to clone a private GitHub repo within an Azure Function, where you can only run Python code - but there is no access to the shell or pre-installed Git or SSH binaries. At the same ...
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How to clone Azure DevOps git repository with OAuth token from service principal?
I am trying to clone an Azure DevOps git repository using an Azure app registration/service principal.
I was successful in bash with the help of this answer.
Sadly, adapting it to GitPython results in ...
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GitPython: get rename files as deleted and added
I need to get git diff files since specific commit using GitPython. As I understood I get renamed files using 'R' type . Is it possible to get the rename_from in the deleted lists and the rename_to in ...
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GitPython: error: Module "git" does not explicitly export attribute "Repo" [attr-defined]
I am using Python 3.10.4, GitPython version 3.1.31, mypy version 1.4.1:
$ pip show GitPython
Name: GitPython
Version: 3.1.31
Location: /home/hakon/.pyenv/versions/3.10.4/lib/python3.10/site-packages
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Retrieving SHA from gitpython when User is not Owner of Cloned Repo on Windows 11?
I am using the gitpython library to obtain the SHA of Python code during execution on a Windows 11 Enterprise PC. It works fine when I do it as I cloned the repo. When another user tries to run the ...
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Mocking GitPython Repo Calls
I've got a class with a function that adds unstaged changes in a git repo and commits them
def commit_local_changes(self, repo_path):
repo = Repo(repo_path)
changed_files = repo....
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How can I calculate exact total changed LOC of pull requests in a project which uses Azure DevOps (with GitPython)
I have a project which uses Azure DevOps as version control system. I want to get total changed line of code count for every pull request in the project. To do this, I send a request to Azure DevOps ...
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gitpython fetch get chinese named branch get encoding error
Python version 3.11.3
When I use gitpython, my codes like below
os.environ["PYTHONIOENCODING"] = "utf-8"
os.environ["PYTHONUFT8"] = "on"
repo = Repo(repo_path)
...
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Problem with git.remote.RemoteProgress method from Gitpython
i try to show the progress using this code in pyQt5 Widget :
import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QLabel, QProgressBar, QVBoxLayout
from PyQt5.QtCore import QObject, ...
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Git : Given MR id , how to find corresponding target branch?
I was going through git commands and I was not able to find a command that takes in MR id and gives somthing like merge request object from where I can get target branch. Is there any such git command ...
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Why gitpython results doesn't match to the github website?
I use the following python code to extract the diff (the hunks) between two commits.
from git import Repo
!git clone https://github.com/apache/commons-math.git
repo = Repo("/content/commons-math&...
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Removing a git submodule without a path
I somehow have a git submodule without a path, which I would like to remove.
Looking into the submodules of my codebase, there is some weird config:
[submodule "a/path"]
path = a/path
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How to fetch an orphaned commit?
tl;dr: I have a repository cloned but cannot see an orphaned commit locally. How can I get that commit if it did not come with the repo?
Details:
I am trying to get the contents of a specific file on ...
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GitPython find most recent tag in the current branch only
I am using this code snippet with GitPython to capture the current branch, most recent commit, and most recent tag. This information will be inserted into a version string.
repo = git.Repo(...
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How do I set a progress bar when cloning a repository with GitPython?
I would like to set a progress bar when cloning a repository with GitPython, by using some library such as tqdm.
For the moment I wrote the following code in the main.py:
import git
...some code...
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empty commit with Repo.commit()
I'm trying to do something like repo.git.commit('-m', 'test commit', author='[email protected]') but instead of the author, I want to pass the --allow-empty to send a dummy commit to the repo. but the ...
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Python PyTest running GitPython under Tox in Ubuntu Docker image: commit fails with Committer/Author identity unknown
Q+A (I'm posting this in case someone else goes down this niche rabbit hole - as it took me a while to figure this out).
Scenario:
You've decided to run a unit-test which 'plays' with creating a local ...
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GitPython cloning and pushing in remote directory
I am writing a script that clones and pushes something to the repository on gitlab. The thing is I have to clone to a specific directory on the filesystem and push from the same directory the project ...
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How to get files change of a given branch?
I struggle to find how to get the list of files that have been modified on my current branch (and ONLY on my current branch, not on the other branches).
For example, I have a branch my_branch based on ...
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Have GitPython stage itself
I am new to GitPython and I am trying to have a python program stage itself to a new git repository (my-new-repo).
My main.py is as follows:
import git
repo = git.Repo.init('my-new-repo')
# List all ...
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Parse git config file using git python
So if I have a git config file something like this.
[color "branch"]
current = yellow bold
local = green bold
remote = cyan bold
I want to read the text between in quotes.
I ...
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How to get Number of files touched, Number of lines added, Number of lines removed from for commit in repo.iter_commits(branch) using python git?
I would like to store the following info per commit like so,
for commit in repo.iter_commits(branch):
author_name=commit.author.name
commit_id=commit
commit_authored_date=datetime.datetime....
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cannot do hard reset with gitpython
I am using the following code using gitpython:
g = git.cmd.Git(r'C:\Users\alex\Files\Repo\Scripts')
g.reset('--hard')
g.pull()
but I get the following error:
GitCommandError: Cmd('git') failed due to:...
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Unable to get complete git history of file with python
I am trying to get all the content from each revision - history of a file in my local repo i am using gitpython lib and here is the code:
import git,json
from pprint import pprint
repo = git.Repo()
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Make copy of single file in a specific git repository commit
I need to get and make a copy of a single file in a specific commit.
I'm using git show to accomplish this:
>> git show 4c100bd6a48e3ae57a6d6fb698f336368605c0a2:test_file.txt >> ...
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Automated git pull from local Gitlab repository using gitpython requires [email protected] password
We have a locally hosted Gitlab repository which I am trying to automate pushing and pulling with gitpython over ssh with the following script:
LOCAL_REPO_PATH = "/path/to/repository"
repo =...
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How to execute --track, using GitPython(as a python script). "git checkout -B <branchname> --track origin/<TeamBranch>"
I can execute "git checkout -B --track origin/TeamBranch" through terminal. but I have the requirement to implement the above command through my script using Gitpython.
can someone help me ...
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Python way of doing git remote add origin
Is there a way to this in Python?
git remote add origin https://gitlab.com/xxxx/aaa/bbb/feature2.git
git branch -M main
git push -uf origin main
Things I have tried:
I tried to do
from git import ...
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module 'git' has no attribute 'Repo' - when running as non-root user.. works as root user
As above, I wrote a gitlab pre-receive hook that runs as a 'git' user on our gitlab server. When testing it, I get the above error. However when I SSH into the server and manually run the script as ...
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AttributeError: module 'git' has no attribute 'Repo' - working on local machine but not on remote server
I've read through other solutions on here for general module x has no attribute y to no avail. What's catching me here is that this works fine on my local machine. When I transfer it over to a remote ...
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How do I pass username and access token automatically to Repo.clone_from() command using Gitpython?
I am trying to clone a GitLab repo in a python script using GitPython. I want it to be able to clone this private repo from GitLab without me having to manually input my username and auth token each ...
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How to set secret_key in GitPython
How to set git secret-key to GitPython in order to access already cloned local repo
import git
repo = git.Repo('local/already-cloned-repo-path')
repo.remotes.origin.pull()
Consider the case where git ...
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Set credentials to pull from local git repository with PythonGit
I have a git repository on an internal server and now want to have a scheduled task that automatically pulls changes to my local version. Found the GitPython package, which seems to be exactly what I ...
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How to save the results of git show as an excel file
I want to save a certain version of the excel file using python
I have used git show to get the content of this excel
git show 17ed4f74:xxx.xlsx
output:
how to save it as an .xlsx file
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