How to use git blame in GitPython?

Question

I'm trying to use the GitPython module in my script... and I can't. That's not very documented : GitPython Blame

I think I'm not so far, because the normally git blame I want to reproduce is the follow : git blame -L127,+1 ../../core/src/filepath.cpp -e

Here is my script :

from git import *
    repo = Repo("C:\\Path\\to\\my\\repos\\")
    assert not repo.bare
    # log_line = open("lineDeb.txt")
    # for line in log_line:
    repo.git.blame(L='127,+1' '../../core/src/filepath.cpp', e=True)

The two lines commented are for the final goal to git blame on each number line in my "lineDeb.txt" file.

I've the following ouput :

...
git.exc.GitCommandError: 'git blame -L127,+1../../core/src/filepath.cpp -e' returned with exit code 129
stderr: 'usage: git blame [options] [rev-opts] [rev] [--] file
...

The goal is to get the email of the line committer...

Byron · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-09 15:24:26Z

5

for commit, lines in repo.blame('HEAD', filepath):
    print("%s changed these lines: %s" % (commit, lines))

The commit is the one that changed the given lines, in order of appearance in the file. Thus, if your would write all lines into a file, your would have the file at filepath at revision HEAD.

If you are looking for only a specific line, and as there are no options that you could currently pass to the blame subcommand, you would have to count to the line yourself.

ln = 127 # lines start at 0 here
tlc = 0

for commit, lines in repo.blame('HEAD', filepath):
    if tlc <= ln < (tlc + len(lines)):
         print(commit)
    tlc += len(lines)

This is less optimal than passing the respective -L option to git blame, but should do the job.

If it turns out to be too slow, you could consider making a PR that adds **kwargs to Repo.blame to pass on to git blame.

edited Mar 9, 2015 at 15:24

answered Mar 9, 2015 at 13:20

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Algorys Over a year ago

Thanks for answer. I've seen this command repo.blame('HEAD', filepath) but how I can blame only on specific line (127 for example) and get the email of the commiter ?

Algorys Over a year ago

Python doesn't take the return commit... outside function. But just with print, that's work. Thanks.

user3323999 · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-17 11:45:16Z

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If you're blaming a large number of lines you might find this higher performance:

blame = []
cmd = 'cd {path};git blame {fname}'.format(
            path=repo_path,
            fname=rootpath + fname)
with os.popen(cmd) as process:
   blame = process.readlines()

print blame[line_number]

answered Sep 17, 2015 at 11:45

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