Question

hello is there an good utility or package that handles git folder download ?

example

getsomething = {
    'htmlpurifier' : 'http://repo.or.cz/w/htmlpurifier.git'
}

for key in vendors:
    # someutility.get(http://repo.or.cz/w/htmlpurifier.git,htmlpurifier)
    someutility.get(vendors[key],key) 
    # get http://repo.or.cz/w/htmlpurifier folder to /htmlpurifier  on localstorage ?

if there is anything similar?

Answer 1

I prefer to use git commands directly and wrap it using subprocess module.

How ever, if you are looking for modules to interact with Git, I can think of

• dulwich : http://www.samba.org/~jelmer/dulwich/docs/index.html
• git-python: http://gitorious.org/projects/git-python/

For git-python, particularly, please look at class : Repo. It has a function:

fork_bare(path, **kwargs)  
Fork a bare git repository from this repo 
path is the full path of the new repo (traditionally ends with name.git)  
options is any additional options to the git clone command 
Returns git.Repo (the newly forked repo)

Also you can checkout: http://packages.python.org/GitPython/0.3.2/tutorial.html#using-git-directly

git = repo.git
git.checkout('head', b="my_new_branch")