hgapi is a pure-Python API to Mercurial, that uses the command-line interface instead of the internal Mercurial API. The rationale for this is twofold: the internal API is unstable, and it is GPL.
hgapi works for all versions of Mercurial, and will instantly reflect any changes to the repository (including hgrc). It also has a really permissive license (do whatever you want, don't blame me).
For example of code that uses this API, take a look at https://bitbucket.org/haard/autohook which now uses hgapi exclusively. Add any feature requests or bugs found to the issue tracker.
So far, the API supports:
hg add [<file>] hg addremove [<file>] hg archive [-t type] [-r rev] <destination> hg bookmarks [-r rev] [-f] [-m name newname | -d name | -i name | name] hg branch hg branches hg clone hg commit [files] [-u name] [--close-branch] hg diff hg heads hg id hg incoming hg init hg log hg merge (fails on conflict) hg outgoing hg paths hg pull [<source>] hg push [<destination>] hg remove hg rename <source> <destination> hg revert hg root hg status hg tag hg tags hg update <rev> hg version
You also have access to the configuration (config, configbool, configlist) just as in the internal Mercurial API. The repository supports slicing and indexing notation.
Example usage:
>>> import hgapi
>>> repo = hgapi.Repo("test_hgapi") # existing folder
>>> repo.hg_init()
>>> repo.hg_add("file.txt") # already created but not added file
>>> repo.hg_commit("Adding file.txt", user="me")
>>> str(repo['tip'].desc)
'Adding file.txt'
>>> len(repo[0:'tip'])
1
>>> open('test_hgapi/file.txt', 'a').write('\nAdded line') # doctest: +IGNORE_RESULT
>>> diff = repo.hg_diff() # returns list of diffs
>>> assert diff[0]['filename'] == 'file.txt'
>>> assert '+Added line' in diff[0]['diff']
Easiest is easy_install or pip from PyPy:
pip install hgapi
or:
easy_install hgapi
Otherwise, download the source, make sure you have setuptools installed, and then run:
python setup.py install
Do not hesitate to send requests, issues or perform code reviews! When developing please follow the pep8 guidelines (see http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/) and do use tox to check your code:
tox
Tox will make sure that hgapi runs on Python 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4; and it will check the pep8 compliance. By contributing you agree to release the code under the license terms listed below (basically - anyone can do anything with this code). Feel free to add yourself to the contributor list in your pull request.
- Fredrik Håård
- Jan Willems
- Stephen Paulger
- Andy Tang
- Thomas Röggla
- Ardo Illaste
- Ken Cochrane
- Simon Williams
Copyright (c) 2011, Fredrik Håård
Do whatever you want, don't blame me. You may also use this software as licensed under the MIT or BSD licenses, or the more permissive license below:
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