gitpython equivalent of git-apply

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Is there a way to apply a patch (in the form of a diff file) to a repo using only the gitpython library?

In other words, is there a gitpython equivalent of the git-apply command?

chuck1 · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-28 16:47:40Z

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Solution is to do

r = Repo('path-to-repo')
r.git.execute(['git','apply','patch.diff'])

I had tried this before but I had omitted the 'git' at the beginning of the argument list, which gave an error about the command not existing.

answered Oct 28, 2015 at 16:47

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Nishant Over a year ago

Is there no API in gitpython to do this directly? I am asking this because, most of the time we have a string which contains diff. In that case we will have to first write the diff to a file - then run r.git.execute and then clean up the file.

chuck1 Over a year ago

as far as i know there is nothing in the API. are you familiar with tempfile, I think that will make your scenario fairly painless

tomRatzfatz · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-09 08:52:32Z

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You can use git directly, like this:

 repo = git.Repo('repository_path') 

 repo.git.apply(['-3', 'patch-file'])

this will perform the git command:

git apply -3 patch-file

edited Jan 9, 2019 at 8:52

answered Nov 7, 2018 at 8:50

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m33n Over a year ago

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