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Git is a distributed version control system that tracks changes in any set of computer files, usually used for coordinating work among programmers collaboratively developing source code during software development.
This notebook shows how to load text files from Git repository.

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Load existing repository from disk

pip install -qU  GitPython

from git import Repo

repo = Repo.clone_from(
    "https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain", to_path="./example_data/test_repo1"
)
branch = repo.head.reference

from langchain_community.document_loaders import GitLoader

loader = GitLoader(repo_path="./example_data/test_repo1/", branch=branch)

data = loader.load()

len(data)

print(data[0])

page_content='.venv\n.github\n.git\n.mypy_cache\n.pytest_cache\nDockerfile' metadata={'file_path': '.dockerignore', 'file_name': '.dockerignore', 'file_type': ''}

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Clone repository from url

from langchain_community.document_loaders import GitLoader

loader = GitLoader(
    clone_url="https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain",
    repo_path="./example_data/test_repo2/",
    branch="master",
)

data = loader.load()

len(data)

1074

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Filtering files to load

from langchain_community.document_loaders import GitLoader

# e.g. loading only python files
loader = GitLoader(
    repo_path="./example_data/test_repo1/",
    file_filter=lambda file_path: file_path.endswith(".py"),
)
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