Python3 script to find a particular branch existence and last commit date in git lab

GitPython has references to all the branches. A user can iterate to check if the branch is part of that reference or not.

pip3 install GitPython

git required imports

from git import Repo
import git

last commit date required imports

from time import strftime, localtime
import datetime

Below command downloads repo to local and gets all remote branches
Repo.clone_from(repoName, “C:\\”+folderNameLocal,branch=’master’)
repo = git.Repo(folderNameLocal)
remote_refs = repo.remote().refs

then iterate over remote branches then look for your specific branch

for refs in remote_refs:
#below if condition will check for given branch present in remote ref
if (refs.name.lower()).startswith(‘origin/abc’):
print(refs.name.lower())

Command to get Last commit date

datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(refs.commit.committed_date)

full script can be found here

https://github.com/sudhast1910/pythonutilities/blob/main/findbranchandlastcommit_gitlab.py