List all git commits with GitPython
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I am getting ready to do some timeseries analysis on a git repo with python, my first step is to figure out a way to list all of the git commits so that I...

Date: May 9, 2022

I am getting ready to do some timeseries analysis on a git </glossary/git/> repo with python, my first step is to figure out a way to list all of the git commits so that I can analyze each one however I want. The GitPython library made this almost trivial once I realized how.

[code]
  from git import Repo

  repo = Repo('.')
  commits = repo.iter_commits()

This returns a generator, if you are iterating over them this is likely what you want.

[code]
  commits
  # <generator object Commit._iter_from_process_or_stream at 0x7f3307584510>

The generator will return git.Commit objects with lots of information about each commit such as hexsha, author, commited_datetime, gpgsig, and message.

[code]
  next(commits)
  # <git.Commit "d125317892d0fab10a36638a2d23356ba25c5621">