"Git has sometimes been described as a versioning file-system which happens to support the underlying notions of version control. And while most people do simply use Git as a version control system, it remains true that it can be used for other tasks as well.

For example, if you ever need to store mutating data in a series of snapshots, Git may be just what you need. It’s fast, efficient, and offers a large array of command-line tools for examining and mutating the resulting data store.

To support this kind of usage – for the upcoming purpose of maintaining issue tracking data in a Git repository – I’ve created a Python class that wraps Git as a basic shelve object. Here is how you normally use the standard shelve module: ..."