pygit2 is a set of Python 2.6+ bindings to the libgit2 linkable C Git library.
First you need to install the latest version of libgit2. You can find platform-specific instructions to build the library in the libgit2 website:
http://libgit2.github.com
Next, make sure you have the required library dependencies for pygit2: OpenSSL and ZLib. For instance, in Debian-based systems run:
$ sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libssl-dev
Also, make sure you have Python 2.6+ installed together with the Python development headers.
When those are installed, you can install pygit2:
$ git clone git://github.com/libgit2/pygit2.git
$ cd pygit2
$ python setup.py install
$ python setup.py test
Fork libgit2/pygit2 on GitHub, make it awesomer (preferably in a branch named for the topic), send a pull request.
- David Borowitz dborowitz@google.com
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