ImportError: cannot import name BadName

[Utumno]

import git
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\_\Python27\lib\site-packages\gitpython-0.3.4-py2.7.egg\git\__init__.py", line 36, in <module>
    from git.refs import *
  File "C:\_\Python27\lib\site-packages\gitpython-0.3.4-py2.7.egg\git\refs\__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from .symbolic import *
  File "C:\_\Python27\lib\site-packages\gitpython-0.3.4-py2.7.egg\git\refs\symbolic.py", line 11, in <module>
    from gitdb.exc import (
ImportError: cannot import name BadName

[niyaton]

It's a bug from update of gitdb.
I think this problem will be solved in a few days because next release of gitdb is already mentioned in gitpython-developers/gitdb#17.

[Utumno]

Yes I updated gitPython to latest master and gitdb to 6.3 and apparently gidb has not the BadName

Anyway please see this as an opportunity to revisit install instructions for gitPython

I am on windows and I can assure you pip install gitpython is not docs enough

I am using "C:\_\Python27\Scripts\easy_install-2.7.exe" GitPython and resort to alchemy - and I am not alone into this

[Byron]

Currently when using master of gitpython, you will need to use master of gitdb as well. This is a known issue.
Just to be sure, I have installed gitpython from pip, which works just fine.

virtualenv gitpython-install
cd gitpython-install
./bin/pip install gitpython
./bin/python -c "import git" && echo "OK"

Nonetheless, I will keep this issue open and close it just before a new pypi release is made.

[Byron]

gitdb was released on pypi, which will fix the error described here.