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Clone repository and “checkout” to "tags/<my_tag>" #1026
Description
More a general Q/A than an issue, but I'm struggling with this topic.
I clone a repository using Repo.clone_from(). Afterwards, I simply want to switch to a specified tag within the repository, similar to git checkout tags/<my_tag>.
I found the following solution, but it resets HEAD of my master branch, which is not what I want:
logging.info("Cloning repo... " + name)
repo = Repo.clone_from(url, path)
repo.head.reference = repo.tags[tag].commit
Is it possible to perform something like a git checkout tags/<my_tag> where I just switch to the current tag, but am able to switch also back to the current / latest commit on the repository?
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Byron commentedon Jul 6, 2020
That's quite alright, the issue was tagged accordingly. Thanks.
That's a great finding! I did do some searching to come up with the following.
HEADto point to the tag:repo.head.set_reference(repo.tags[tag].commitrepo.git.checkout(tag)which does exactly what you want.I hope this answers the question - GitPython is a lot of 'low-level' plumbing, which makes some common operations unintuitive. These are best left to the git porcelain, provided by the
gitcommand-line interface.Even though I am closing the issue, please feel free to keep posting follow-ups.
conFusl commentedon Aug 4, 2020
Thanks a lot for the reply.
I was struggling to follow the API description - and where I have which possibilities, e.g. repo, git, head, tags[]...
Your solution does exactly what I expected, and I was pretty sure that there is a possibility :-) Thanks!