Well, anyvcs to the rescue! Or, as it stands today, not yet. There isn’t much code to go around with anyvcs yet – it only works with Git and can’t do much beyond tell you the version or what the latest commit ID is on a branch. But thats exciting right?

You can look at the source for anyvcs here and clone it via

git clone git://stackworks.net/anyvcs.git

The high level goals for this project include:

1. Simple backend for most distributed VCS operations, such as checkout, branch, apply patch, reset, etc
2. Targets primarily git and mercurial, or other VCSes which operate in a similar manner. Subversion isn’t a likely first target for instance, nor is bzr (though we would like to support both eventually).
3. Provide a comprehensive wrapper for Git commands via a Python library. If some of the functionality doesn’t end up in the core anyvcs abstraction, anyvcs.git will provide some VCS specific operations.

There is a great reason for this project – but I won’t reveal everything just yet.

The gitweb is available here: http://stackworks.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=girm.git;a=summary

and cloning is available at

git://stackworks.net/girm.git/