Have you had a chance to work with Git? If so, did you know that you can work with your git repository from within python script?

GitPython python library does exactly this job:

http://gitpython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

#python #git #push #pull #GitPython

Few days ago we talk about gitPython to work with git inside of python. The code below is a sample that would do all routine tasks like pulling and pushing or commit.

1- Initiate git object in python by providing path:

from git import Repo
 repo = Repo(repo_path)

2- If you want to pull results from git repo:

repo.git.pull('origin', 'refs/heads/dev')

3- Let's say you want to set username and email for git author:

config = repo.config_writer()
 config.set_value("user", "email", author_email)
 config.set_value("user", "name", author_name)

4- Now to add a specific file to staged:

index = repo.index
 index.add([file_path])

5- Commit the staged file with a message:

index.commit(commit_message)

6- The final step is to push to a remote repo:

repo.git.push('origin', 'refs/heads/dev')

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If you forget to pull your projects from git in a regular interval and many users working on the same projects, then there is a solution for you!

Create a bash script file as follow and make it executable by chmod +x puller.sh:

puller.sh file content:

#!/bin/bash

 echo 'Iterating over folders...'
 for dir in *
 do
   test -d "$dir" && {
       cd ${dir}
       echo "git pull $dir"
       git pull
       cd ".."
   } || {
       echo "------> $dir is not a directory <-------"
   }
 done

NOTE: this file should reside in your folder's project root. In my case it is in /Your/Projects/Folder.

Now as a final step, put it in your crontab:

10 * * * * bash -c "cd /Your/Projects/Folder; bash puller.sh >> /var/log/git_pull_output.log"

#linux #git #pull #cronjob #crontab #cron #bash