Repositoryhandler

Description

RepositoryHandler is a python library for handling code repositories through a common interface.

How to get RepositoryHandler

Latest version:

• git clone https://github.com/MetricsGrimoire/RepositoryHandler.git

Supported repository types

• CVS
• SVN
• GIT
• BZR (Preliminary support)
• Tarball

Optional:

• ARCH (not implemented yet)
• DARCS (not implemented yet)

Dependencies

• Python >= 2.4
• CVS client
• SVN client
• WGET or curl
• Autoconf (for installation)

How to install

To be used from other packages, RepositoryHandler should be installed:

 > # python setup.py install

If root access is not possible, the "sudo" command will not be run, and the package will stay installed in the current directory. It can be used there by including it in the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.

Examples

• CVS Repository

from repositoryhandler.backends import create_repository

create a cvs repository for poppler on FreeDesktop

> repo = create_repository ('cvs', ':pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/poppler')

checkout module poppler into /tmp directory from HEAD

> repo.checkout ('poppler', '/tmp/')

update working copy on /tmp from POPPLER_0_5_X branch

> repo.update ('/tmp/poppler', rev = 'POPPLER_0_5_X')

show diff between HEAD and POPPLER_0_5_X branches

> diff = repo.diff ('/tmp/poppler', revs = ['HEAD', 'POPPLER_0_5_X'])
> print diff

show history for ChangeLog file

> history = repo.log ('/tmp/poppler', files = ['ChangeLog'])
> print history