How to get count of unpublished commit with GitPython?

Question

With git status I can get information about count of unpublished commits:

» git status             
# On branch master
# Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 2 commits.
#   (use "git push" to publish your local commits)
#
nothing to commit, working directory clean

I want to get unpublished commits (or count) with GitPython. I docs I found repo.git.status(), but this is not what I want.

Chronial · Accepted Answer · 2023-01-22T11:45:58.020

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The command you are looking for is:

repo.iter_commits('BRANCH@{u}..BRANCH')

or if you want this as a list:

list(repo.iter_commits('BRANCH@{u}..BRANCH'))

The BRANCH@{u} syntax refers to the upstream branch of BRANCH.

edited Jan 22 '23 at 11:45

answered Apr 07 '13 at 12:09

Chronial

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This gave me an empty list, when I knew that I had unpushed changes. I found that I had to reverse the order of arguments, to find commits that I had made locally but not yet pushed, for example this worked: `list(repo.iter_commits('master@{u}..master'))` – Clare Macrae Feb 10 '20 at 17:21

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 02 '21 at 01:26

Thanks to @Chronial and @Clare-Macrae for your feedback Using gitPython ==3.1.11, I did it like that:

branch = self.repo.active_branch
unpushed_symbol = '⇡' if list(self.repo.iter_commits(f'{branch}@{{u}}..{branch}')) else constants.NOTHING
unpulled_symbol = '⇣' if list(self.repo.iter_commits(f'{branch}..{branch}@{{u}}')) else constants.NOTHING

How to get count of unpublished commit with GitPython?

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