Details

How Gitzer works

Downloading

When a user runs the get-gitzer.py installation script, the latest release is downloaded and then unzipped to a temporary directory. This folder is then copied to ~/.gitzer and the necessary git aliases are set.

Running

Gitzer depends on a number of packages and these dependencies are vendorized along with the release itself. All these dependencies can be found in ~/.gitzer/_vendor/ directory.

When the user runs git gitzer, the command executed is python3 /home/vagrant/.gitzer/main.py. The dependencies have to be added to PYTHONPATH manually since there is no easy way to activate a virtual environment using python. This is done by modifying the sys.path variable.