NAME

Git::Wrapper - wrap git(7) command-line interface

VERSION

  Version 0.010

SYNOPSIS

  my $git = Git::Wrapper->new('/var/foo');

  $git->commit(...)
  print $_->message for $git->log;

DESCRIPTION

Git::Wrapper provides an API for git(7) that uses Perl data structures for argument passing, instead of CLI-style --options as Git does.

METHODS

Except as documented, every git subcommand is available as a method on a Git::Wrapper object.

The first argument should be a hashref containing options and their values. Boolean options are either true (included) or false (excluded). The remaining arguments are passed as ordinary command arguments.

  $git->commit({ all => 1, message => "stuff" });

  $git->checkout("mybranch");

Output is available as an array of lines, each chomped.

  @sha1s_and_titles = $git->rev_list({ all => 1, pretty => 'oneline' });

If a git command exits nonzero, a Git::Wrapper::Exception object will be thrown. It has three useful methods:

• error

  error message

• output

  normal output, as a single string

• status

  the exit status

The exception stringifies to the error message.

new

  my $git = Git::Wrapper->new($dir);

dir

  print $git->dir; # /var/foo

version

  my $version = $git->version; # 1.6.1.4.8.15.16.23.42

log

  my @logs = $git->log;

Instead of giving back an arrayref of lines, the log method returns a list of Git::Wrapper::Log objects. They have four methods:

• id

• author

• date

• message

COMPATIBILITY

On Win32 Git::Wrapper is incompatible with msysGit installations earlier than Git-1.7.1-preview20100612 due to a bug involving the return value of a git command in cmd/git.cmd. If you use the msysGit version distributed with GitExtensions or an earlier version of msysGit, tests will fail during installation of this module. You can get the latest version of msysGit on the Google Code project page: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads

SEE ALSO

VCI::VCS::Git is the git implementation for VCI, a generic interface to version-controle systems.

Git itself is at http://git.or.cz.

AUTHOR

Hans Dieter Pearcey, <hdp@cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-git-wrapper@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2008 Hans Dieter Pearcey, All Rights Reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

cpanm Git::Wrapper

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Git::Wrapper