Dulwich: Pure Python implementation of git

[koenigdavidmj]

Github's hg-git plugin ( http://hg-git.github.com/ ) is built with this, and so manages to avoid a dependency on the git binaries.

[dborowitz]

Incidentally, the second most frequent contributor to hg-git after schacon is Augie Fackler, one of the Google engineers who helped with Google Code's git implementation (and also a frequent hg hacker).

[simonw]

This is the library that Google used for Google Code's git support.

[swombat]

Dulwich is a real town in the South of London, with a relatively large school called Dulwich College, where I studied. A bit spooked to see a library named after it...

[brendn]

"Dulwich is the place where Mr. and Mrs. Git live in one of the Monty Python sketches." (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dulwich)

[arthurdenture]

Not only that, there's a bus that goes to Dulwich Library, which I was obligated to snap a picture of when I was visiting London.

[glenjamin]

Does anyone know what the performance of this on windows (maybe with PyPy?) is compared to MSys Git or Cygwin.

If it's pretty good there should be some mileage in making a reasonable git client for windows based on this.

[nuclear_eclipse]

That's exactly what I was thinking of when seeing this. It could prove fruitful for getting a "Tortoise" interface for git that's both easy to maintain and doesn't rely on clunky bits like msysgit.

[cincinnatus]

How about an Iron Python based implementation. Then it could be 'native' code

[baq]

msysgit was fast enough for me in a 250+kloc project.

it was certainly faster than dog-slow g++.

[uriel]

What i would like to see is an Hg implementation in Go.

[andrewflnr]

Why, exactly? It sounds like an oddly interesting idea to me, too, but I'm not sure why and I'd like to hear your reasons.

[pointyhat]

I'm actually considering doing this now you've said it. If there would be enough interest that is. There are very few "non-python" complete hg implementations.

[sitkack]

I don't know why this makes me so happy.

[morphir]

python is like china. By making a shameless copy for them self to use.