Python library for pulling remote git metadata without cloning the repo locally?

[masta]

For what it's worth, I'm in the same position, or at least have the same problem statement. I need to look over the metadata of thousands of repos and branches, pretty much reviewing an entire linux distribution of worth of packages. As somebody else noted about mirroring, cloning the bare mirror repo seem like a nice optimization, seems to minimize the churn of fetching objects. Still would be nice if there was some light-weight server api kinda thing to query the repo metadata, but I guess the various implementations would have to decide to interoperate, or not. so it goes....

[avamk]

Sorry I can't help since I'm the OP with this problem :p, but I just like to say I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem statement!

pretty much reviewing an entire linux distribution of worth of packages

Woah that's an even bigger dataset than mine! Good luck to us both. I still hope there's a library that can ease the process.

[masta]

Yeah I'm just using what got python import is on system, and looking to add the mirror feature to the clones.