I'm using GitPython with a bare repository and I'm trying to get specific git object by its SHA. If I used git directly, I would just do this
git ls-tree sha_of_tree
git show sha_of_blob
Since I'm using GitPython and I want to get a specific tree, I do the following:
repo = Repo("path_to_my_repo")
repo.tree("b466a6098a0287ac568ef0ad783ae2c35d86362b")
And get this back
<git.Tree "b466a6098a0287ac568ef0ad783ae2c35d86362b">
Now I have a tree object, but I cannot access its attributes like path, name, blobs, etc.
repo.tree("b466a6098a0287ac568ef0ad783ae2c35d86362b").path
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\gitdb\util.py", line 238, in __getattr__
self._set_cache_(attr)
File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\git\objects\tree.py", line 147, in _set_cache_
super(Tree, self)._set_cache_(attr)
File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\git\objects\base.py", line 157, in _set_cache_
raise AttributeError( "path and mode attributes must have been set during %s object creation" % type(self).__name__ )
AttributeError: path and mode attributes must have been set during Tree object creation
But if I type the following, it works
repo.tree().trees[0].path
The other part of my question is how to get a blob object with GitPython. I noticed that the only object tree has attribute blobs, so in order to get blob by SHA, I have to (a) first know which tree it belongs to, (b) find this blob, and then (c) call the data_stream
method.
I could just do
repo.git.execute("git show blob_sha")
but I would like to know first that this is the only way to do this.