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In a python script, I try to checkout a tag after cloning a git repository. I use GitPython 0.3.2.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import git
g = git.Git()
g.clone("user@host:repos")
g = git.Git(repos)
g.execute(["git", "checkout", "tag_name"])
With this code I have an error:
g.execute(["git", "checkout", "tag_name"])
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/git/cmd.py", line 377, in execute
raise GitCommandError(command, status, stderr_value)
GitCommandError: 'git checkout tag_name' returned exit status 1: error: pathspec 'tag_name' did not match any file(s) known to git.
If I replace the tag name with a branch name, I have no problem. I didn't find informations in GitPython documentation. And if I try to checkout the same tag in a shell, I have non problem.
Do you know how can I checkout a git tag in python ?
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You will not be able to checkout the tags if it's not locally in your repository so first, you have to fetch the tags to your local repository. Instead of origin use the tags/ prefix. In this sample you have 2 tags version 1.0 & version 1.1 you can check them out with any of the following: $ git checkout A ...
git clone $ git clone -b <tagname> <repository> . If you only need the specific tag, you can pass the --single-branch flag, which prevents fetching all the branches in the cloned repository. With the --single-branch flag, only the branch/tag specified by the --branch option is cloned.
We can use git module in python to clone the repository from git. Clone the repository you want to work with in local system. So in clone_from methods pass the two arguments in which first argument is url of your repository and second argument is the location of your directory where you want to cloned the repo.
Assuming you cloned the repository in 'path/to/repo', just try this:
from git import Git
g = Git('path/to/repo')
g.checkout('tag_name')
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