We can use the GitPython package, https://gitpython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html, to work with our Git repository. We will install the package and use the Python shell to construct a Repo object. From there, we can list all the commits in the repository: 

$ sudo pip3 install gitpython
$ python3
>>> from git import Repo
>>> repo = Repo('/home/echou/Master_Python_Networking/Chapter10/TestRepo')
>>> for commits in list(repo.iter_commits('master')):
... print(commits)
...
0aa362a47782e7714ca946ba852f395083116ce5
a001b816bb75c63237cbc93067dffcc573c05aa2
bc078a97e41d1614c1ba1f81f72acbcd95c0728c
2ec5f7d1a734b2cc74343ce45075917b79cc7293
c98373069f27d8b98d1ddacffe51b8fa7a30cf28
a3dd3ea8e6eb15b57d1f390ce0d2c3a03f07a038
5f579ab1e9a3fae13aa7f1b8092055213157524d

We can also look at the index entries: 

>>> for (path, stage), entry in index.entries.items():
... print(path, stage, entry)
...
mySecondFile.txt 0 100644 75d6370ae31008f683cf18ed086098d05bf0e4dc 0 mySecondFile.txt
LICENSE 0 100644 52feb16b34de141a7567e4d18164fe2400e9229a 0 LICENSE
myFile.txt 0 100644 69e7d4728965c885180315c0d4c206637b3f6bad 0 myFile.txt
.gitignore 0 100644 894a44cc066a027465cd26d634948d56d13af9af 0 .gitignore
README.md 0 100644 a29fe688a14d119c20790195a815d078976c3bc6 0 README.md
>>>

GitPython offers good integration with all the Git functions. However, it is not the easiest to work with. We need to understand the terms and structure of Git to take full advantage of GitPython. But it is always good to keep it in mind in case we need it for other projects.