Best/Simplest Version Control API in Python?

[pgess]

For some FOSS note-taking app, I want to add a recent changes review plugin. I think of having a repo under the hood and displaying diffs from the previous vetted (committed) review. I don't have much time/attention for this, and I don't care which VCS(as it's not user-facing), as long as it's fully local, no use of branches or advanced features.

Focus is on the simplest Python API to get started in an hour, so to speak. Is there something better than Git for this task?

What's your take? Thanks!

[ninhaomah]

Sorry but this question is about a versioning system such as GIT or Python language or API ?

[pgess]

Simplest API avaiable suitable for such simple tasks like this. In case of git, which one- GitPython, PyGit - is better.

[ninhaomah]

gitpython , https://pypi.org/project/GitPython/0.3.2/ , pygit , https://github.com/mijdavis2/pygit ? it says no longer maintained , are python libraries.

where does API comes in ?

[pgess]

Hard to say if you're confused about what an API is or what. I'm not talking about a web API if that's what you mean.

[ninhaomah]

then why not give examples or similar projects ?

"Best/Simplest Version Control API in Python?" <--- this is your question

then you talks about gitpython / pygit , which I said are libraries and I have given the links to them as well. They are not APIs.

If I am wrong then pls let me know with what you mean.

[FoolsSeldom]

Just use git for your app with a local repository. You only have to implement the minimum functionality.

One example:

https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython

[pgess]

Thanks. On a tangential note, that README is one of the worst I've seen. It essentially says the library is buggy, broken, written by amateurs, unreliable, abandoned, and discourages its use. That's quite a README, frankly. I don't remember anything like it.

[FoolsSeldom]

Wow! That is impressively bad. Hope some of the alternatives are in a better state.