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There are many cool (command-line) tools which can help you quickly find/locate files.

1. find
2. locate
3. osquery
4. fselect
5. ripgrep

Those tools can be combined with the pipe operator | to do further filtering or manipulation. However, after trying all tools I have to state that the best way for a Python user is leveraging the pathlib

Note: dulwich is not feature complete yet and the development of the project is extremely slow. It is suggested that you use other Python packages instead. For more discussions, please refer to Git Implementations and Bindings in Python .

Tips and Traps¶

1. The git command (and thus Dulwich) accepts URLs both with and without the trailing .git

Tips and Traps¶

1. GitPython is a wrapper around the git command. It requires the git command to be on the search path in order to work. Also, sometimes it is easier to call the git command via subprocess.run directly instead of using GitPython.

2. The git command (and thus GitPython) accepts URLs both with and without the trailing .git

python-magic¶

python-magic is the recommended library to use for checking whether a file is a text file.