A Python abstraction layer for multiple version control systems.

python-anyvcs provides a Python interface to work with version control repositories through a consistent interface regardless of the underlying repository type. It currently supports:

• Git repositories (either bare or non-bare)
• Mercurial repositories
• Subversion master repositories (those created with svnadmin create)

The focus is on read-only operations, but a few write operations are supported (like creating new repositories or loading a Subversion dumpfile).

If you are looking for an interface to work with working copies of version control repositories, either contribute to this project or look elsewhere.

• ls() - list files
• cat() - read file contents
• readlink() - read symbolic link target
• branches() - list branches
• bookmarks() - list bookmarks (Mercurial only)
• tags() - list tags
• heads() - list all branches, bookmarks, tags, etc.
• empty() - determine if the repository contains any commits
• __len__() - count the number of commits in the repository
• __contains__() - determine if the repository contains the given revision
• log() - get commit logs
• changed() - list files that were changed in a given revision
• pdiff() - get diff that a given revision introduced
• diff() - get diff between any two revisions
• ancestor() - find most recent common ancestor of any two revisions
• blame() - blame (a.k.a. annotate) lines of a file
• canonical_rev() - get the canonical revision identifier
• private_path - a path in the repository where untracked data can be stored
• dump() - create a Subversion dumpfile (Subversion only)
• load() - load a Subversion dumpfile (Subversion only)

Operations that are not natively supported by the underlying version control system are implemented in this library.

>>> from pprint import pprint >>> import anyvcs >>> repo = anyvcs.open('/path/to/repo') >>> repo.branches() ['1.0_develop', '1.0_master', 'develop', 'master'] >>> >>> log = repo.log(limit=3) >>> pprint([commit.message for commit in log]) ["Merge branch 'release/1.2.0' into developn", "Merge branch 'release/1.2.0'n", 'add README symlink to keep python happyn', 'add copyright informationn'] >>> >>> ls = repo.ls('master', '/') >>> pprint(ls) [{'name': '.gitignore', 'path': '.gitignore', 'type': 'f'}, {'name': 'AUTHORS', 'path': 'AUTHORS', 'type': 'f'}, {'name': 'COPYING', 'path': 'COPYING', 'type': 'f'}, {'name': 'COPYING.LESSER', 'path': 'COPYING.LESSER', 'type': 'f'}, {'name': 'LICENSE', 'path': 'LICENSE', 'type': 'f'}, {'name': 'MANIFEST.in', 'path': 'MANIFEST.in', 'type': 'f'}, {'name': 'README', 'path': 'README', 'type': 'l'}, {'name': 'README.md', 'path': 'README.md', 'type': 'f'}, {'name': 'RELEASE-NOTES.txt', 'path': 'RELEASE-NOTES.txt', 'type': 'f'}, {'name': 'anyvcs', 'path': 'anyvcs', 'type': 'd'}, {'name': 'setup.py', 'path': 'setup.py', 'type': 'f'}, {'name': 'tests.py', 'path': 'tests.py', 'type': 'f'}]

python-anyvcs should work with the following software versions:

• Python: 2.6 or later (including 3.0 or later)
• Git: 1.7.0 or later
• Mercurial: 1.6.1 or later
• Subversion: 1.5 or later