Repo.checkout()

[Jelmer Vernooij]

There isn't any easy high-level way to check out a specific revision, including updating the index.

[chbrosso (chbrosso)]

Answering to a StackOverflow question I could write a very basic checkout with Dulwich:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6640546/programmatically-git-checkout-with-dulwich/6640755#6640755

[milki (milki-p)]

I implemented a checkout for git clone. When a repo is non-bare cloned, it will checkout master.

I don't think we can properly do branch switching until dulwich has merging code. There are two ways you can do a checkout - blow away the current working dir and rebuild it, or merge the working dir. cgit does a merge.

https://github.com/milki/dulwich/tree/checkout

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Removing assignee again, as milki isn't actively working on this.