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The vcstools module provides a Python API for interacting with different version control systems (VCS/SCMs). The VcsClient class provides an API for seamless interacting with Git, Mercurial (Hg), Bzr and SVN. The focus of the API is manipulating on-disk checkouts of source-controlled trees. Its main use is to support the rosinstall tool.

General Vcs/Scm API

The VcsClient class provides a generic API for

Subversion (svn)
Mercurial (hg)
Git (git)
Bazaar (bzr)

class vcstools.VcsClient(vcs_type, path)

API for interacting with source-controlled paths independent of actual version-control implementation.

Parameters

vcs_type – type of VCS to use (e.g. ‘svn’, ‘hg’, ‘bzr’, ‘git’), str
path – filesystem path where code is/will be checked out , str

path_exists() -> bool

Returns: True if path exists on disk.

get_path() -> str

Returns: filesystem path this client is initialized with.

url_matches(self, url, url_or_shortcut) -> bool

client can decide whether the url and the other url are equivalent. Checks string equality by default

Parameters: url_or_shortcut – url or shortcut (e.g. bzr launchpad url)
Returns: bool if params are equivalent

get_version([spec=None]) -> str

Parameters

spec –

token for identifying repository revision desired. Token might be a tagname, branchname, version-id, or SHA-ID depending on the VCS implementation.

svn: anything accepted by svn info --help, e.g. a revnumber, {date}, HEAD, BASE, PREV, or COMMITTED
git: anything accepted by git log, e.g. a tagname, branchname, or sha-id.
hg: anything accepted by hg log -r, e.g. a tagname, sha-ID, revision-number
bzr: revisionspec as returned by bzr help revisionspec, e.g. a tagname or revno:<number>

Returns

current revision number of the repository. Or if spec is provided, the globally unique identifier (e.g. revision number, or SHA-ID) of a revision specified by some token.

get_remote_version(self, fatch=False) -> str

Find an identifier for the current revision on remote. Token spec might be a tagname, version-id, SHA-ID, … depending on the VCS implementation.

Parameters: fetch – if False, only local information may be used
Returns: current revision number of the remote repository.

get_current_version_label() -> str

Find an description for the current local version. Token spec might be a branchname, version-id, SHA-ID, … depending on the VCS implementation.

returns: short description of local version (e.g. branchname, tagename).

checkout(url[, version=''][, verbose=False][, shallow=False])

Checkout the given URL to the path associated with this client.

Parameters

url – URL of source control to check out
version – specific version to check out
verbose – flag to run verbosely
shallow – flag to create shallow clone without history

update(version)

Update the local checkout from upstream source control.

detect_presence() -> bool

Returns: True if path has a checkout with matching VCS type, e.g. if the type of this client is ‘svn’, the checkout at the path is managed by Subversion.

get_vcs_type_name() -> str

Returns: type of VCS this client is initialized with.

get_url() -> str

Returns: Upstream URL that this code was checked out from.

get_branch_parent()

(Git Only)

Returns: parent branch.

get_diff([basepath=None])

Parameters: basepath – compute diff relative to this path, if provided
Returns: A string showing local differences

get_status([basepath=None[, untracked=False]])

Calls scm status command. semantics of untracked are difficult to generalize. In SVN, this would be new files only. In git, hg, bzr, this would be changes that have not been added for commit.

Parameters

basepath – status path will be relative to this, if provided.
untracked – If True, also show changes that would not commit

Returns

A string summarizing locally modified files

Example:

import vcstools

# interrogate an existing tree
client = vcstools.VcsClient('svn', '/path/to/checkout')

print client.get_url()
print client.get_version()
print client.get_diff()

# create a new tree
client = vcstools.VcsClient('hg', '/path/to/new/checkout')
client.checkout('https://bitbucket.org/foo/bar')

vcstools is available on pypi and can be installed via pip

pip install vcstools

or easy_install:

easy_install vcstools

The vcstools module is meant to be used as a normal Python module. After it has been installed, you can import it normally and do not need to declare as a ROS package dependency.

Developer’s Guide

Code API

Packages

vcstools Package

Library for tools that need to interact with ROS-support version control systems.

vcstools.setup_logger(): creates a logger 'vcstools'

bzr Module

bzr vcs support.

vcstools.bzr.BZRClient

alias of BzrClient

class vcstools.bzr.BzrClient(path)

Bases: VcsClientBase

checkout(url, version=None, verbose=False, shallow=False, timeout=None)

Attempts to create a local repository given a remote url. Fails if a target path exists, unless it's an empty directory. If a version is provided, the local repository will be updated to that revision. It is possible that after a failed call to checkout, a repository still exists, e.g. if an invalid revision was given. If shallow is provided, the scm client may checkout less than the full repository history to save time / disk space. If a timeout is specified, any pending operation will fail after the specified amount (in seconds). NOTE: this parameter might or might not be honored, depending on VCS client implementation. :param url: where to checkout from :type url: str :param version: token for identifying repository revision :type version: str :param shallow: hint to checkout less than a full repository :type shallow: bool :param timeout: maximum allocated time to perform operation :type shallow: int :returns: True if successful

export_repository(version, basepath)

Calls scm equivalent to svn export, removing scm meta information and tar gzip'ing the repository at a given version to the given basepath.

Parameters: version -- version of the repository to export. This can

be a branch, tag, or path (svn). When specifying the version as a path for svn, the path should be relative to the root of the svn repository, i.e. 'trunk', or 'tags/1.2.3', or './' for the root. :param basepath: this is the path to the tar gzip, excluding the extension which will be .tar.gz :returns: True on success, False otherwise.

get_affected_files(revision)

Get the files that were affected by a specific revision :param revision: SHA or revision number. :returns: A list of strings with the files affected by a specific commit

get_branches(local_only=False)

Returns a list of all branches in the vcs repository.

Parameters: local_only -- if True it will only list local branches
Returns: list of branches in the repository, [] if none exist

get_current_version_label()

Find an description for the current local version. Token spec might be a branchname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.

Returns: short description of local version (e.g. branchname, tagename).
Return type: str

get_diff(basepath=None)

Parameters: basepath -- diff paths will be relative to this, if any
Returns: A string showing local differences
Return type: str

static get_environment_metadata()

For debugging purposes, returns a dict containing information about the environment, like the version of the SCM client, or version of libraries involved. Suggest considering keywords "version", "dependency", "features" first. :returns: a dict containing relevant information :rtype: dict

get_log(relpath=None, limit=None)

Calls scm log command.

This returns a list of dictionaries with the following fields:

id: the commit SHA or revision number
date: the date the commit was made (python datetime)
author: the name of the author of the commit, if available
email: the e-mail address of the author of the commit
message: the commit message, if any

Parameters

relpath -- (optional) restrict logs to events on this

resource path (folder or file) relative to the root of the repository. If None (default), this is the root of the repository. :param limit: (optional) the maximum number of log entries that should be retrieved. If None (default), there is no limit.

get_remote_version(fetch=False)

Find an identifier for the current revision on remote. Token spec might be a tagname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.

Parameters: fetch -- if False, only local information may be used
Returns: current revision number of the remote repository.
Return type: str

get_status(basepath=None, untracked=False)

Calls scm status command. Output must be terminated by newline unless empty.

Semantics of untracked are difficult to generalize. In SVN, this would be new files only. In git, hg, bzr, this would be changes that have not been added for commit.

Extra keyword arguments are passed along to the underlying vcs code. See the specific implementations of get_status() for extra options.

Parameters

basepath -- status path will be relative to this, if any
untracked -- whether to also show changes that would not commit

Returns

A string summarizing locally modified files

Return type

str

get_url()

Returns: BZR URL of the branch (output of bzr info command),

or None if it cannot be determined

get_version(spec=None)

Parameters: spec -- (optional) revisionspec of desired version. May be any revisionspec as returned by 'bzr help revisionspec', e.g. a tagname or 'revno:<number>'
Returns: the current revision number of the repository. Or if spec is provided, the number of a revision specified by some token.

static static_detect_presence(path)

For auto detection

update(version='', verbose=False, timeout=None)

Sets the local copy of the repository to a version matching the version parameter. Fails when there are uncommited changes. On failures (also e.g. network failure) grants the checked out files are in the same state as before the call. If a timeout is specified, any pending operation will fail after the specified amount (in seconds)

Parameters

version -- token for identifying repository revision desired. Token might be a tagname, branchname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.
timeout -- maximum allocated time to perform operation

Returns

True on success, False else

url_matches(url, url_or_shortcut)

client can decide whether the url and the other url are equivalent. Checks string equality by default :param url_or_shortcut: url or shortcut (e.g. bzr launchpad url) :returns: bool if params are equivalent

git Module

git vcs support.

refnames in git can be branchnames, hashes, partial hashes, tags. On checkout, git will disambiguate by checking them in that order, taking the first that applies

This class aims to provide git for linear centralized workflows. This means in case of ambiguity, we assume that the only relevant remote is the one named "origin", and we assume that commits once on origin remain on origin.

A challenge with git is that it has strong reasonable conventions, but is very allowing for breaking them. E.g. it is possible to name remotes and branches with names like "refs/heads/master", give branches and tags the same name, or a valid SHA-ID as name, etc. Similarly git allows plenty of ways to reference any object, in case of ambiguities, git attempts to take the most reasonable disambiguation, and in some cases warns.

vcstools.git.GITClient

alias of GitClient

class vcstools.git.GitClient(path)

Bases: VcsClientBase

checkout(url, version=None, verbose=False, shallow=False, timeout=None)

calls git clone and then, if version was given, update(version)

export_repository(version, basepath)

Calls scm equivalent to svn export, removing scm meta information and tar gzip'ing the repository at a given version to the given basepath.

Parameters: version -- version of the repository to export. This can

get_affected_files(revision)

Get the files that were affected by a specific revision :param revision: SHA or revision number. :returns: A list of strings with the files affected by a specific commit

get_branches(local_only=False)

Returns a list of all branches in the vcs repository.

Parameters: local_only -- if True it will only list local branches
Returns: list of branches in the repository, [] if none exist

get_current_version_label()

For git we change the label to clarify when a different remote is configured.

get_default_remote_version_label()

Find a label for the default branch on remote, meaning the one that would be checked out on a clean checkout.

Returns: a label or None (if not applicable)
Return type: str

get_diff(basepath=None)

Parameters: basepath -- diff paths will be relative to this, if any
Returns: A string showing local differences
Return type: str

static get_environment_metadata()

get_log(relpath=None, limit=None)

Calls scm log command.

This returns a list of dictionaries with the following fields:

id: the commit SHA or revision number
date: the date the commit was made (python datetime)
author: the name of the author of the commit, if available
email: the e-mail address of the author of the commit
message: the commit message, if any

Parameters

relpath -- (optional) restrict logs to events on this

get_remote_version(fetch=False)

Find an identifier for the current revision on remote. Token spec might be a tagname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.

Parameters: fetch -- if False, only local information may be used
Returns: current revision number of the remote repository.
Return type: str

get_status(basepath=None, untracked=False, porcelain=False)

Calls scm status command. Output must be terminated by newline unless empty.

Semantics of untracked are difficult to generalize. In SVN, this would be new files only. In git, hg, bzr, this would be changes that have not been added for commit.

Extra keyword arguments are passed along to the underlying vcs code. See the specific implementations of get_status() for extra options.

Parameters

basepath -- status path will be relative to this, if any
untracked -- whether to also show changes that would not commit

Returns

A string summarizing locally modified files

Return type

str

get_url()

Returns: git URL of the directory path (output of git info command), or None if it cannot be determined

get_version(spec=None)

Parameters

spec -- (optional) token to identify desired version. For git, this may be anything accepted by git log, e.g. a tagname, branchname, or sha-id.
fetch -- When spec is given, can be used to suppress git fetch call

Returns

current SHA-ID of the repository. Or if spec is provided, the SHA-ID of a commit specified by some token if found, else None

is_tag(tag_name, fetch=True)

checks list of tags for match. Set fetch to False if you just fetched already.

Returns: True if tag_name among known tags
Raises: GitError when call to git fetch fails

static static_detect_presence(path)

For auto detection

update(version=None, verbose=False, force_fetch=False, timeout=None)

if version is None, attempts fast-forwarding current branch, if any.

Else interprets version as a local branch, remote branch, tagname, hash, etc.

If it is a branch, attempts to move to it unless already on it, and to fast-forward, unless not a tracking branch. Else go untracked on tag or whatever version is. Does not leave if current commit would become dangling.

Returns: True if already up-to-date with remote or after successful fast_foward

exception vcstools.git.GitError

Bases: Exception

hg Module

hg vcs support.

using ui object to redirect output into a string

vcstools.hg.HGClient

alias of HgClient

class vcstools.hg.HgClient(path)

Bases: VcsClientBase

checkout(url, version='', verbose=False, shallow=False, timeout=None)

export_repository(version, basepath)

Calls scm equivalent to svn export, removing scm meta information and tar gzip'ing the repository at a given version to the given basepath.

Parameters: version -- version of the repository to export. This can

get_affected_files(revision)

Get the files that were affected by a specific revision :param revision: SHA or revision number. :returns: A list of strings with the files affected by a specific commit

get_branch()

get_branches(local_only=False)

Returns a list of all branches in the vcs repository.

Parameters: local_only -- if True it will only list local branches
Returns: list of branches in the repository, [] if none exist

get_current_version_label()

Parameters: spec -- (optional) spec can be what 'svn info --help' allows, meaning a revnumber, {date}, HEAD, BASE, PREV, or COMMITTED.
Returns: current revision number of the repository. Or if spec provided, the number of a revision specified by some token.

get_diff(basepath=None)

Parameters: basepath -- diff paths will be relative to this, if any
Returns: A string showing local differences
Return type: str

static get_environment_metadata()

get_log(relpath=None, limit=None)

Calls scm log command.

This returns a list of dictionaries with the following fields:

id: the commit SHA or revision number
date: the date the commit was made (python datetime)
author: the name of the author of the commit, if available
email: the e-mail address of the author of the commit
message: the commit message, if any

Parameters

relpath -- (optional) restrict logs to events on this

get_remote_version(fetch=False)

Find an identifier for the current revision on remote. Token spec might be a tagname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.

Parameters: fetch -- if False, only local information may be used
Returns: current revision number of the remote repository.
Return type: str

get_status(basepath=None, untracked=False)

Calls scm status command. Output must be terminated by newline unless empty.

Semantics of untracked are difficult to generalize. In SVN, this would be new files only. In git, hg, bzr, this would be changes that have not been added for commit.

Extra keyword arguments are passed along to the underlying vcs code. See the specific implementations of get_status() for extra options.

Parameters

basepath -- status path will be relative to this, if any
untracked -- whether to also show changes that would not commit

Returns

A string summarizing locally modified files

Return type

str

get_url()

Returns: HG URL of the directory path. (output of hg paths

command), or None if it cannot be determined

get_version(spec=None)

Parameters: spec -- (optional) token for identifying version. spec can be a whatever is allowed by 'hg log -r', e.g. a tagname, sha-ID, revision-number
Returns: the current SHA-ID of the repository. Or if spec is provided, the SHA-ID of a revision specified by some token.

static static_detect_presence(path)

For auto detection

update(version='', verbose=False, timeout=None)

Parameters

version -- token for identifying repository revision desired. Token might be a tagname, branchname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.
timeout -- maximum allocated time to perform operation

Returns

True on success, False else

svn Module

svn vcs support.

vcstools.svn.SVNClient

alias of SvnClient

class vcstools.svn.SvnClient(path)

Bases: VcsClientBase

checkout(url, version='', verbose=False, shallow=False, timeout=None)

export_repository(version, basepath)

Calls scm equivalent to svn export, removing scm meta information and tar gzip'ing the repository at a given version to the given basepath.

Parameters: version -- version of the repository to export. This can

get_affected_files(revision)

Get the files that were affected by a specific revision :param revision: SHA or revision number. :returns: A list of strings with the files affected by a specific commit

get_branches(local_only=False)

Returns a list of all branches in the vcs repository.

Parameters: local_only -- if True it will only list local branches
Returns: list of branches in the repository, [] if none exist

get_current_version_label()

Find an description for the current local version. Token spec might be a branchname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.

Returns: short description of local version (e.g. branchname, tagename).
Return type: str

get_diff(basepath=None)

Parameters: basepath -- diff paths will be relative to this, if any
Returns: A string showing local differences
Return type: str

static get_environment_metadata()

get_log(relpath=None, limit=None)

Calls scm log command.

This returns a list of dictionaries with the following fields:

id: the commit SHA or revision number
date: the date the commit was made (python datetime)
author: the name of the author of the commit, if available
email: the e-mail address of the author of the commit
message: the commit message, if any

Parameters

relpath -- (optional) restrict logs to events on this

get_remote_version(fetch=False)

Find an identifier for the current revision on remote. Token spec might be a tagname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.

Parameters: fetch -- if False, only local information may be used
Returns: current revision number of the remote repository.
Return type: str

get_status(basepath=None, untracked=False)

Calls scm status command. Output must be terminated by newline unless empty.

Semantics of untracked are difficult to generalize. In SVN, this would be new files only. In git, hg, bzr, this would be changes that have not been added for commit.

Extra keyword arguments are passed along to the underlying vcs code. See the specific implementations of get_status() for extra options.

Parameters

basepath -- status path will be relative to this, if any
untracked -- whether to also show changes that would not commit

Returns

A string summarizing locally modified files

Return type

str

get_url()

Returns: SVN URL of the directory path (output of svn info command), or None if it cannot be determined

get_version(spec=None)

Parameters

spec -- (optional) spec can be what 'svn info --help' allows, meaning a revnumber, {date}, HEAD, BASE, PREV, or COMMITTED.
path -- the url to use, default is for this repo

Returns

current revision number of the repository. Or if spec provided, the number of a revision specified by some token.

static static_detect_presence(path)

For auto detection

update(version=None, verbose=False, timeout=None)

Parameters

version -- token for identifying repository revision desired. Token might be a tagname, branchname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.
timeout -- maximum allocated time to perform operation

Returns

True on success, False else

vcstools.svn.canonical_svn_url_split(url)

checks url for traces of canonical svn structure, and return root, type, name (of tag or branch), subfolder, query and fragment (see urllib urlparse) This should allow creating a different url for switching to a different tag or branch

Parameters: url -- location of central repo, str
Returns: dict {root, type, name, subfolder, query, fragment}

with type one of "trunk", "tags", "branches"

vcstools.svn.get_remote_contents(url)

tar Module

tar vcs support.

The implementation uses the "version" argument to indicate a subfolder within a tarfile. Hence one can organize sources by creating one tarfile with a folder inside for each version.

vcstools.tar.TARClient

alias of TarClient

class vcstools.tar.TarClient(path)

Bases: VcsClientBase

checkout(url, version='', verbose=False, shallow=False, timeout=None)

untars tar at url to self.path. If version was given, only the subdirectory 'version' of the tar will end up in self.path. Also creates a file next to the checkout named

.tar which is a yaml file listing origin url and version arguments.

export_repository(version, basepath)

Calls scm equivalent to svn export, removing scm meta information and tar gzip'ing the repository at a given version to the given basepath.

Parameters: version -- version of the repository to export. This can

get_current_version_label()

Find an description for the current local version. Token spec might be a branchname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.

Returns: short description of local version (e.g. branchname, tagename).
Return type: str

get_diff(basepath=None)

Parameters: basepath -- diff paths will be relative to this, if any
Returns: A string showing local differences
Return type: str

static get_environment_metadata()

get_remote_version(fetch=False)

Find an identifier for the current revision on remote. Token spec might be a tagname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.

Parameters: fetch -- if False, only local information may be used
Returns: current revision number of the remote repository.
Return type: str

get_status(basepath=None, untracked=False)

Calls scm status command. Output must be terminated by newline unless empty.

Semantics of untracked are difficult to generalize. In SVN, this would be new files only. In git, hg, bzr, this would be changes that have not been added for commit.

Extra keyword arguments are passed along to the underlying vcs code. See the specific implementations of get_status() for extra options.

Parameters

basepath -- status path will be relative to this, if any
untracked -- whether to also show changes that would not commit

Returns

A string summarizing locally modified files

Return type

str

get_url()

Returns: TAR URL of the directory path (output of tar info

command), or None if it cannot be determined

get_version(spec=None)

Find an identifier for a the current or a specified revision. Token spec might be a tagname, branchname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.

Parameters: spec (str) -- token for identifying repository revision
Returns: current revision number of the repository. Or if spec is provided, the respective revision number.
Return type: str

static static_detect_presence(path)

For auto detection

update(version='', verbose=False, timeout=None)

Does nothing except returning true if tar exists in same "version" as checked out with vcstools.

vcs_abstraction Module

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vcstools.vcs_abstraction.VCSClient

alias of VcsClient

class vcstools.vcs_abstraction.VcsClient(vcs_type, path)

DEPRECATED API for interacting with source-controlled paths independent of actual version-control implementation.

vcstools.vcs_abstraction.get_registered_vcs_types()

Returns: list of valid key to use as vcs_type

vcstools.vcs_abstraction.get_vcs(vcs_type)

Returns the class interfacing with vcs of given type

Parameters: vcs_type -- id of the tpye, e.g. git, svn, hg, bzr
Returns: class extending VcsClientBase
Raises: ValueError for unknown vcs_type

vcstools.vcs_abstraction.get_vcs_client(vcs_type, path)

Returns a client with which to interact with the vcs at given path

Parameters: vcs_type -- id of the tpye, e.g. git, svn, hg, bzr
Returns: instance of VcsClientBase
Raises: ValueError for unknown vcs_type

vcstools.vcs_abstraction.register_vcs(vcs_type, clazz)

Parameters

vcs_type -- id, str
clazz -- class extending VcsClientBase

vcs_base Module

vcs support library base class.

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class vcstools.vcs_base.VcsClientBase(vcs_type_name, path)

parent class for all vcs clients, provides their public API

checkout(url, version=None, verbose=False, shallow=False, timeout=None)

detect_presence()

For auto detection

export_repository(version, basepath)

Calls scm equivalent to svn export, removing scm meta information and tar gzip'ing the repository at a given version to the given basepath.

Parameters: version -- version of the repository to export. This can

get_affected_files(revision)

Get the files that were affected by a specific revision :param revision: SHA or revision number. :returns: A list of strings with the files affected by a specific commit

get_branches(local_only=False)

Returns a list of all branches in the vcs repository.

Parameters: local_only -- if True it will only list local branches
Returns: list of branches in the repository, [] if none exist

get_current_version_label()

Find an description for the current local version. Token spec might be a branchname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.

Returns: short description of local version (e.g. branchname, tagename).
Return type: str

get_default_remote_version_label()

Find a label for the default branch on remote, meaning the one that would be checked out on a clean checkout.

Returns: a label or None (if not applicable)
Return type: str

get_diff(basepath=None)

Parameters: basepath -- diff paths will be relative to this, if any
Returns: A string showing local differences
Return type: str

static get_environment_metadata()

get_log(relpath=None, limit=None)

Calls scm log command.

This returns a list of dictionaries with the following fields:

id: the commit SHA or revision number
date: the date the commit was made (python datetime)
author: the name of the author of the commit, if available
email: the e-mail address of the author of the commit
message: the commit message, if any

Parameters

relpath -- (optional) restrict logs to events on this

get_path()

returns the path this client was configured for

get_remote_version(fetch=False)

Find an identifier for the current revision on remote. Token spec might be a tagname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.

Parameters: fetch -- if False, only local information may be used
Returns: current revision number of the remote repository.
Return type: str

get_status(basepath=None, untracked=False, **kwargs)

Calls scm status command. Output must be terminated by newline unless empty.

Semantics of untracked are difficult to generalize. In SVN, this would be new files only. In git, hg, bzr, this would be changes that have not been added for commit.

Extra keyword arguments are passed along to the underlying vcs code. See the specific implementations of get_status() for extra options.

Parameters

basepath -- status path will be relative to this, if any
untracked -- whether to also show changes that would not commit

Returns

A string summarizing locally modified files

Return type

str

get_url()

Returns: The source control url for the path or None if not set
Return type: str

get_vcs_type_name()

used when auto detected

get_version(spec=None)

Find an identifier for a the current or a specified revision. Token spec might be a tagname, branchname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.

Parameters: spec (str) -- token for identifying repository revision
Returns: current revision number of the repository. Or if spec is provided, the respective revision number.
Return type: str

path_exists()

helper function

static static_detect_presence(path)

For auto detection

update(version=None, verbose=False, timeout=None)

Parameters

version -- token for identifying repository revision desired. Token might be a tagname, branchname, version-id, SHA-ID, ... depending on the VCS implementation.
timeout -- maximum allocated time to perform operation

Returns

True on success, False else

url_matches(url, url_or_shortcut)

exception vcstools.vcs_base.VcsError(value)

To be thrown when an SCM Client faces a situation because of a violated assumption

Changelog

0.1

0.1.42

remove cosmic and disco until we have hosting for it

0.1.41

fix git submodule error due to lack of quoting
Fix git update failure by refreshing git index before fast-forward
Fix python3 incompatibility due to wrong use of urlopen
Updating get_affected_files function by removing single quotes covering format (#129)
Fix export_upstream for git submodules with relative urls. (#130)

0.1.40

Trivial style and testing changes

0.1.39

Added support for git submodule in export_repository
Add Wily Xenial Yakkety
Add get_affected_files for all vcss

0.1.38

Fixed test failures due to SVN 1.9.
Added the get_default_remote_version_label() API method to support changes in wstool.
Renamed some internal functions to have a leading _ to indicate that they are private.

0.1.37

Fix an issue where log were restricted to the named branch (hg).
Fixed svn to use a global revision number rather than a branch-local revision.
Added the get_remote_version() and get_current_version_label() API calls.
Enhanced use of no_warn in run_shell_command().
Fix get_version() to catch stderr.
Added get_branches() API call.
Fix some errors and warnings to output to stderr.
Fix output to avoid extra newlines when show_stdout=True.

0.1.36

Updates to the release platforms (-lucid +utopic +vivid)
Fix an issue with updating branches on git, see vcstools/wstool#25

0.1.31

Fix submodule support on checkout #71

0.1.30

use netrc to download tars from private repos, also will work for private rosinstall files
Fix checks for empty repository #62

0.1.29

fix #57 shallow checkout of non-master breaks with git >= 1.8.0
unit test fixes

0.1.28

test of new upload method

0.1.27

fix #51 hg status and diff dont work if workspace is inside hg repo
fix #47 several performance improvements by removing unecessary update actions after checkout
fix #46 https tar download fails behind proxy
fix #45 sometimes commands run forever
fix #44 minor bug when checking out from repo with default branch not master
fix #41 improvedAPI, get_vcs_client function part of vcstools module

0.1.26

fix #38 git commands fail in local repositories with many (>2000) references
fix #31 get_log() svn xml not available on Ubuntu Lucid (hg 1.4.2)
fix #37 update() returns True even when fetch failed

0.1.25

minor bugfixes
travis-ci config file
fix unit tests for svn diff&status ordering changes
deprecated VcsClient Class
added get_log function

0.1.24

fix git update return value to False when fast-forward not possible due to diverge
fix. svn certificate prompt invisible, svn checkout and update become verbose due to this

0.1.22

Changed the way that git implements detect_presence to fix a bug with submodules in newer versions of git
fix for git single quotes on Windows
minor internal api bug where a git function always returned True
fix gub in svn export_repository

0.1.21

bugfix #66: hg http username prompt hidden
add export_repository method to vcs_base and all implementations with tests
bugfix #64: unicode decoding problems

0.1.20

rosws update –verbose for git prints small message when rebasing
improved python3 compatibility

0.1.19

more python3 compatibility
code style improved
match_url to compare bzr shortcuts to real urls
more unit tests
get_status required to end with newline, to fix #55

0.1.18

added shallow flag to API, implemented for git

0.1.17

svn stdout output on get_version removed

0.1.16

All SCMs show some output when update caused changes
All SCMs have verbose option to show all changes done on update
bugfix for bazaar getUrl() being a joined abspath
bugfix for not all output being shown when requested

0.1.15

Added pyyaml as a proper dependency, removed detection code.
remove use of tar entirely, switch to tarfile module
fix #36 allowing for tar being bsdtar on OSX

0.1.14

Added tarball uncompression.

0.1.13

added this changelog
git get-version fetches only when local lookup fails
hg get-version pulls if label not found
Popen error message incudes cwd path

0.1.12

py_checker clean after all refactorings since 0.1.0

0.1.11

svn and hg update without user interaction
bugfix #30
minor bugfixes

0.1.10

minor bugs

0.1.9

safer sanitization of shell params
git diff and stat recurse for submodules
base class manages all calls to Popen

0.1.8

several bugfixes
reverted using shell commands instead of bazaar API

0.1.7

reverted using shell commands instaed of pysvn and mercurial APIs
protection against shell incection attempts

0.1.6

bugfixes to svn and bzr
unified all calls through Popen

0.1.5

missing dependency to dateutil added

0.1.4

switched shell calls to calls to python API of mercurial, bazaar, py-svn

0.1.3

fix #6

0.1.2

fix #15

0.1.1

more unit tests
diverse bugfixes
major change to git client behavior, based around git https://kforge.ros.org/vcstools/trac/ticket/1

0.1.0

documentation fixes

0.0.3

import from svn

Bug reports and feature requests

Submit a bug report

Developer Setup

vcstools uses setuptools, which you will need to download and install in order to run the packaging. We use setuptools instead of distutils in order to be able use setup() keys like install_requires.

cd vcstools python setup.py develop

Testing

Install test dependencies

pip install nose
pip install mock

vcstools uses Python nose for testing, which is a fairly simple and straightfoward test framework. The vcstools mainly use unittest to construct test fixtures, but with nose you can also just write a function that starts with the name test and use normal assert statements.

vcstools also uses mock to create mocks for testing.

You can run the tests, including coverage, as follows:

cd vcstools
make test

Documentation

Sphinx is used to provide API documentation for vcstools. The documents are stored in the doc subdirectory.

Index
Module Index
Search Page

Name

General Vcs/Scm API

Developer’s Guide

Code API

Packages

vcstools Package

vcstools Package

bzr Module

git Module

hg Module

svn Module

tar Module

vcs_abstraction Module

vcs_base Module

Changelog

Changelog

0.1

0.1.42

0.1.41

0.1.40

0.1.39

0.1.38

0.1.37

0.1.36

0.1.31

0.1.30

0.1.29

0.1.28

0.1.27

0.1.26

0.1.25

0.1.24

0.1.22

0.1.21

0.1.20

0.1.19

0.1.18

0.1.17

0.1.16

0.1.15

0.1.14

0.1.13

0.1.12

0.1.11

0.1.10

0.1.9

0.1.8

0.1.7

0.1.6

0.1.5

0.1.4

0.1.3

0.1.2

0.1.1

0.1.0

0.0.3

Bug reports and feature requests

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Testing

Documentation

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