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 and 3.2

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. Download libgit2 v0.17.0 https://github.com/downloads/libgit2/libgit2/libgit2-0.17.0.tar.gz
2. Build and install libgit2 http://libgit2.github.com/#install

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.

The following people have contributed at least one patch to the pygit2 project (sorted alphabetically):

• Alex Chamberlain
• Amit Bakshi
• András Veres-Szentkirályi
• Ben Davis
• Benjamin Kircher
• Bryan O'Sullivan
• Carlos Martín Nieto
• Christian Boos
• David Borowitz (Original author)
• David Sanders
• David Versmisse
• Eric Davis
• Eric Schrijver
• Erik van Zijst
• Ferengee
• Han-Wen Nienhuys
• Hugh Cole-Baker
• J David Ibáñez (Current maintainer)
• Jared Flatow
• John Szakmeister
• Josh Bleecher Snyder
• Julien Miotte
• Martin Lenders
• Nico von Geyso
• Petr Hosek
• Petr Viktorin
• Richo Healey
• Ridge Kennedy
• Rui Abreu Ferreira
• Sarath Lakshman
• Sebastian Thiel
• Vicent Marti
• W Trevor King
• Xavier Delannoy
• Yonggang Luo
• Zoran Zaric
• pistacchio

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