Commits on Sep 24, 2025

1. __init__: don't run refresh on import …

   Consumers of gitpython may not need to use it in all use cases, and may
   want to be able to run (without using gitpython) in environments where
   git is not available on PATH. While this can be worked around by setting
   the GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH environment variable, adding special handling for
   gitpython means that it can't be imported just like everything else in
   an import block at the top of the module, and environment variables have
   potentially undesired propagation behaviour.
   
   Previously, it was also nontrivial to distinguish gitpython failing to
   import because of missing git or because e.g. gitpython isn't installed
   at all, because the exception that's raised is an ImportError without
   further qualification (except in the error message).
   
   Thus, we now no longer perform `refresh` at the module top level,
   instead performing it lazily when an invocation of git is attempted.
   This also allows some functionality that doesn't rely on the git command
   to work without, e.g. ref listing.

   

   lheckemann committed Sep 24, 2025
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