I am trying get a file from a specific commit using gitpython python-module.
I'm able to get the file (with content) from the latest commit. However I want to get the file (with content) from a specific previous git commit.
repo = git.Repo("G:\myrespo")
obj = repo.git.get_object_data(x.a_blob)
How can I get it ?
Here's one way to get a file from a specific commit:
import io
repo = Repo('G:\myrespo')
# Retrieve specific commit from repo
# The revision specifier must be one of the specifiers defined in
# https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rev-parse#_specifying_revisions
# In this example, we'll use a SHA-1
commit = repo.commit('7ba4789adf73c0555fbffad3b62d61e411c3b1af')
# Retrieve a file from the commit tree
# You can use the path helper to get the file by filename
targetfile = commit.tree / 'some_file.md'
# Retrieve contents of targetfile
with io.BytesIO(targetfile.data_stream.read()) as f:
print(f.read().decode('utf-8'))
targetfile is a standard GitPython Object:
>>> targetfile.name
'some_file.md'
>>> targetfile.type
'blob'
