del gitenv['GIT_DIR']

        gitenv['GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL'] = '1'

        _git_path = rhodecode.CONFIG.get('git_path', 'git')

        cmd = [_git_path] + _copts + cmd

        if _str_cmd:

            cmd = ' '.join(cmd)

        try:

            _opts = dict(

                env=gitenv,

                shell=False,

            )

            _opts.update(opts)

            p = subprocessio.SubprocessIOChunker(cmd, **_opts)

        except (EnvironmentError, OSError), err:

            log.error(traceback.format_exc())

            raise RepositoryError("Couldn't run git command (%s).\n"

                                  "Original error was:%s" % (cmd, err))

        return ''.join(p.output), ''.join(p.error)

    def run_git_command(self, cmd):

        opts = {}

        if os.path.isdir(self.path):

            opts['cwd'] = self.path

        return self._run_git_command(cmd, **opts)

    @classmethod

    def _check_url(cls, url):

        """

        Functon will check given url and try to verify if it's a valid

        link. Sometimes it may happened that mercurial will issue basic

        auth request that can cause whole API to hang when used from python

        or other external calls.

        On failures it'll raise urllib2.HTTPError

        """

        from mercurial.util import url as Url

        # those authnadlers are patched for python 2.6.5 bug an

        # infinit looping when given invalid resources

        from mercurial.url import httpbasicauthhandler, httpdigestauthhandler

        # check first if it's not an local url

        if os.path.isdir(url) or url.startswith('file:'):

            return True

        if('+' in url[:url.find('://')]):

            url = url[url.find('+') + 1:]

        handlers = []

        test_uri, authinfo = Url(url).authinfo()

        if not test_uri.endswith('info/refs'):

            test_uri = test_uri.rstrip('/') + '/info/refs'

        if authinfo:

            #create a password manager

            passmgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()

            passmgr.add_password(*authinfo)

            handlers.extend((httpbasicauthhandler(passmgr),

                             httpdigestauthhandler(passmgr)))

        o = urllib2.build_opener(*handlers)

        o.addheaders = [('User-Agent', 'git/1.7.8.0')]  # fake some git

        q = {"service": 'git-upload-pack'}

        qs = '?%s' % urllib.urlencode(q)

        cu = "%s%s" % (test_uri, qs)

        req = urllib2.Request(cu, None, {})

        try:

            resp = o.open(req)

            return resp.code == 200

        except Exception, e:

            # means it cannot be cloned

            raise urllib2.URLError("[%s] %s" % (url, e))

    def _get_repo(self, create, src_url=None, update_after_clone=False,

                  bare=False):

        if create and os.path.exists(self.path):

            raise RepositoryError("Location already exist")

        if src_url and not create:

            raise RepositoryError("Create should be set to True if src_url is "

                                  "given (clone operation creates repository)")

        try:

            if create and src_url:

                GitRepository._check_url(src_url)

                self.clone(src_url, update_after_clone, bare)

                return Repo(self.path)

            elif create:

                os.mkdir(self.path)

                if bare:

                    return Repo.init_bare(self.path)

                else:

                    return Repo.init(self.path)

            else:

        except (NotGitRepository, OSError), err:

            raise RepositoryError(err)

    def _get_all_revisions(self):

        # we must check if this repo is not empty, since later command

        # fails if it is. And it's cheaper to ask than throw the subprocess

        # errors

        try:

            self._repo.head()

        except KeyError:

            return []

        cmd = 'rev-list --all --reverse --date-order'

        try:

            so, se = self.run_git_command(cmd)

        except RepositoryError:

            # Can be raised for empty repositories

            return []

        return so.splitlines()

    def _get_all_revisions2(self):

        #alternate implementation using dulwich

        includes = [x[1][0] for x in self._parsed_refs.iteritems()

                    if x[1][1] != 'T']

        return [c.commit.id for c in self._repo.get_walker(include=includes)]

    def _get_revision(self, revision):

        """

        For git backend we always return integer here. This way we ensure

        that changset's revision attribute would become integer.

        """

        pattern = re.compile(r'^[[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|[0-9a-fA-F]{40}]$')

        is_bstr = lambda o: isinstance(o, (str, unicode))

        is_null = lambda o: len(o) == revision.count('0')

        if len(self.revisions) == 0:

            raise EmptyRepositoryError("There are no changesets yet")

        if revision in (None, '', 'tip', 'HEAD', 'head', -1):

            revision = self.revisions[-1]

        if ((is_bstr(revision) and revision.isdigit() and len(revision) < 12)

            or isinstance(revision, int) or is_null(revision)):

            try:

                revision = self.revisions[int(revision)]

            except:

                raise ChangesetDoesNotExistError("Revision %r does not exist "

                    "for this repository %s" % (revision, self))

        elif is_bstr(revision):

            # get by branch/tag name

            _ref_revision = self._parsed_refs.get(revision)

            _tags_shas = self.tags.values()

            if _ref_revision:  # and _ref_revision[1] in ['H', 'RH', 'T']:

                return _ref_revision[0]

            # maybe it's a tag ? we don't have them in self.revisions

            elif revision in _tags_shas:

                return _tags_shas[_tags_shas.index(revision)]

            elif not pattern.match(revision) or revision not in self.revisions:

                raise ChangesetDoesNotExistError("Revision %r does not exist "

                    "for this repository %s" % (revision, self))

        # Ensure we return full id

        if not pattern.match(str(revision)):

            raise ChangesetDoesNotExistError("Given revision %r not recognized"

                % revision)

        return revision

    def _get_archives(self, archive_name='tip'):

        for i in [('zip', '.zip'), ('gz', '.tar.gz'), ('bz2', '.tar.bz2')]:

                yield {"type": i[0], "extension": i[1], "node": archive_name}

    def _get_url(self, url):

        """

        Returns normalized url. If schema is not given, would fall to

        filesystem (``file:///``) schema.

        """

        url = str(url)

        if url != 'default' and not '://' in url:

            url = ':///'.join(('file', url))

        return url

    @LazyProperty

    def name(self):

        return os.path.basename(self.path)

    @LazyProperty

    def last_change(self):

        """

        Returns last change made on this repository as datetime object

        """

        return date_fromtimestamp(self._get_mtime(), makedate()[1])

    def _get_mtime(self):