Pygit2 is a set of Python bindings to the libgit2 shared library, libgit2 implements the core of Git. Pygit2 works with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3

Pygit2 links:

• http://github.com/libgit2/pygit2 -- Source code and issue tracker
• http://www.pygit2.org/ -- Documentation
• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pygit2 -- Download

1. Checkout the libgit2 stable branch:

   $ git clone git://github.com/libgit2/libgit2.git -b master
   

2. Build and install libgit2 https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/#building-libgit2---using-cmake

3. Install pygit2 with pip:

   $ pip install pygit2
   

For detailed instructions check the documentation, http://www.pygit2.org/install.html

Fork libgit2/pygit2 on GitHub, make it awesomer (preferably in a branch named for the topic), send a pull request.

This is the list of authors of pygit2, sorted by number of commits (as shown by git shortlog -sn):

• J David Ibáñez
• Nico von Geyso
• W Trevor King
• Dave Borowitz
• Carlos Martín Nieto
• Daniel Rodríguez Troitiño
• Richo Healey
• Christian Boos
• Julien Miotte
• Martin Lenders
• Xavier Delannoy
• Yonggang Luo
• Valentin Haenel
• Bernardo Heynemann
• John Szakmeister
• David Versmisse
• Petr Hosek
• Rémi Duraffort
• Sebastian Thiel
• Han-Wen Nienhuys
• Petr Viktorin
• Alex Chamberlain
• Amit Bakshi
• Andrey Devyatkin
• Ben Davis
• Hervé Cauwelier
• Jared Flatow
• Jiunn Haur Lim
• Sarath Lakshman
• Vicent Marti
• Zoran Zaric
• András Veres-Szentkirályi
• Benjamin Kircher
• Benjamin Pollack
• Bryan O'Sullivan
• David Fischer
• David Sanders
• Eric Davis
• Eric Schrijver
• Erik van Zijst
• Ferengee
• Fraser Tweedale
• Hugh Cole-Baker
• Josh Bleecher Snyder
• Jun Omae
• Ridge Kennedy
• Rui Abreu Ferreira
• Xu Tao
• pistacchio

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